A Poem For English Class

For English class, we had to write a poem with similes in it. We got to choose our subject, and so mine was on Edgar Allan Poe :)

My Hero

A Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, Featuring References to a Few Pieces of His Works.

Edgar Allan Poe

Is a legend from head to toe.

He makes everything

As dark as night.

The depth of it all

Is quite the opposite of small.

His loneliness is like the

Narrator and his “lost Lenore”.

Death is manifest;

Edgar’s life had been a battlement.

Like the people whose lives

Ended in “The Masque Of The Red Death”.

Lies, deception, plotting,

Dreaming, ravens, suffering, and rotting,

Are all words and themes that are

Like air to Edgar Allan Poe.

“The Balloon Hoax”

Shot ideas out like a stick in spokes.

Looking for a simile in this story

Is as pointless as Facebook.

 Edgar’s life is a memorial

And not like “The Premature Burial”.

He left a legacy in the world

Like the harsh words upon the midget in “Hop Frog”.

My twin, my hero;

Edgar was always thought as zero.

Life to him seemed as far away

As it was in “A Dream Within A Dream”.