The City in the Sea (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- First Published: 1831
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nightmares, Death or dying, Good and evil, Hell, Sea or seafaring life, Cities or towns, Ruins
The Poem
“The City in the Sea” is a poem of four uneven stanzas, the divisions between which Edgar Allan Poe reworked in the several editions of this lyric. The title of the poem and the revisions Poe made in that title suggest connections with the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, ancient cities condemned for their wickedness and licentiousness. The city that Poe depicts here is certainly a doomed, dreary, and lonely place, one characterized by death rather than life, by stillness rather than human activity.
The poem is primarily descriptive, and by beginning as he does...
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See Also:
Edgar Allan Poe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry)Edgar Allan Poe (Short Fiction)Edgar Allan Poe (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Edgar Allan Poe (Dictionary of World Biography)
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