"These were days when my heart was volcanic / As the scoriac rivers that roll-- / As the lavas that restlessly roll / Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek / In the ultimate climes of the pole."
— Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
Published in the American Review
Date
December 1847
Metaphor
"These were days when my heart was volcanic / As the scoriac rivers that roll-- / As the lavas that restlessly roll / Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek / In the ultimate climes of the pole."
Metaphor in Context
Here once, through an alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul--
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
These were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll--
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole--
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.
(ll. 10-9)
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul--
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
These were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll--
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole--
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.
(ll. 10-9)
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Provenance
Reading poetry at RPO
Citation
Poe, Edgar Allan. "To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad." American Review, 6 (Dec. 1847): 599. Representative Poetry Online edition. Ed. Ian Lancashire, 2009. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
11/29/2009
