Jed Chizner illuminates "alone"

Alone

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were; I have not seen

As others saw; I could not bring <-------- When kids saw joy and happiness he saw fear       

My passions from a common spring.       and darkness.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Then- in my childhood, in the dawn

Of a most stormy life- was drawn

From every depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still: <-------- He is not sure his purpose in life, its like a 

From the red cliff of the mountain,             mystery

From the sun that round me rolled

In its autumn tint of gold,

From the lightning in the sky

As it passed me flying by,

From the thunder and the storm,

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view.

The poem "Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe,  is about how Poe and how he felt like he was always different, and he could never really fit in. The meaning of the poem "Alone", is that of Poe being so different, being left out, not fitting in, and the feeling of sorrowness. The poem is trying to teach the meaning by the way he writes his sorrowness and his sense of being different, his seeking to solve the mystery of why he "lives" and why he was born, and finally why his life is so different, when others are living completely normal and happy lives.