Poe Poetry and Pied Stilts

 Pied Stilts on Pumicestone Passage

The Pied Stilt is a black and white wading bird with very long legs. It is common around wetlands and coastal areas throughout Australia and New Zealand. Their calls are most often high pitched yapping alarm sounds. Pied Stilts  tend to stay in groups throughout the year. They feed together and roost together in large flocks. They often associate with other waders, feeding and roosting alongside and flying with birds such as oystercatchers and godwits. Both parents build the nest on the ground near water and incubate the 3 or 4 eggs, which hatch after 25 days. The chicks  leave the nest at around 32 days old.

Passage from Poe's 
Alone   

Lines from Poe

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

• There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.

• Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

• I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active, not more happy ,nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

• There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

 

Edgar Allan Poe Bio

Born in Boston 19th January 1809 and Died 7th October 1849

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. His mother Elizabeth left her husband after Edgar was born and then she unfortunately past away when he was only two. He was adopted by Mr and Mrs John Allan. Between the ages of 6 and 12 Edgar spent his school years in England before going back to the Allan,s . Edgar went to University of Virginia and began to drink heavily before joining the army. The Allan's were quite wealthy but when John Allan died nothing was left for Edgar in the will so he struggled financially. In 1835 Edgar got his big break when he won a competition with his story,Manuscript in a Bottle and gained employment as an editor for a newspaper.

Poes Poems '

•  Annabel Lee The Story Behind the Legend
• I was a child and she was a child,
  In this kingdom by the sea;
  But we loved with a love that was more than love-
  I and my Annabel Lee

  The Raven

The Raven Narrated by Christopher Lee