"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe

What is meant by being alone? Some would describe being alone in a figurative manner, such as being with other people but feeling alone inside. While others would give being alone a literal definition, such as actually being isolated from other humans. In the poem "Alone," Edgar Allan Poe talks about being alone in terms of not being able to experience things as others do. Poe presents gothic images of a person who feels alone in this world. Poe accomplishes this by contrasting how the speaker views himself, with how he views the rest of the world emphasizing the isolation he feels from the rest of the world.
Poe draws many contrasts throughout the poem to emphasize the speaker*s isolation from the rest of the world. In the beginning of the poem the author tells us that even during his childhood he was different than other people. "From my childhood s hour I have not been / As others were" (line 1). He also says he viewed things from a different perspective than other people did. "I h...