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Reading it aloud definitely adds to experiencing the poem as an evocation. A hymn, of sorts, like the Ophic Hymns. There's a flow, a crest and fall to the verses. Beautiful.

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Poe's characters seemed to love their women more when they were gone than they did when they were actually alive....

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You know when your beautiful and beloved cousin-bride dies young, it stays with you.

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