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Call_Me_Cellador_'s avatar

It's so amazingly beautiful.

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Michelle Ma's avatar

I love this poem, its frequently referenced in Nabokov's Lolita

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J. S. Absher's avatar

An ear worm indeed, though I treasure my memory of my father murmuring the poem mostly to himself.

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Aberdeen Livingstone's avatar

This parody made me laugh! Thank you for that on a Monday morning. This is one of the first poems I memorized because Poe is oh-so-memorizable and yes, somehow it works even though when you break down all of Poe's tricks it seems like it shouldn't.

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Michael Kupperburg's avatar

Your right! It shouldn't work, but the sound of the verse with the images that seem to mirror the coming and going of the sea, make it work.

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