Alone

"From childhood's hour I have not been As other were--I have not seen As others saw--I could not bring My passions from a common spring-- From the same source I have not taken." I thought that Poe might be talking about his childhood literally and how he felt ostracized because as I have seen in his other poems he has a very dark thought process. In this poem he is describing how he felt different than everyone else. I also did some background research on Poe and found out that he was orphaned at the age of two and taken in by a man who eventually disinherited him leaving Poe penniless. So I began to think that Poe felt he wasn't the same as others in his childhood because he didn't have parents like they did and that made him feel like an outcast.
Poe continues the poem by describing different things like the fountain and the mountain, which I think might be the part of his life where he made a name for himself and became rich but he still feels like that outcast child who couldn't relate to anyone and the demon in his view, is his past memories of that and the tragedies of his life.


P.S. I commented on Ana's blog