“Ulalume” focuses on the narrator’s loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound.
Charles Sutton is a local judge in a small Missouri town. On the surface he appears to be an upstanding family man, but if you dig a little deeper. a dark truth is uncovered.
Poe praised “The Sleeper” as a “superior” poem. He wrote to an admirer: “In the higher qualities of poetry, it is better than ‘The Raven’—but there is not one man in a million who could be brought to agree with me in this opinion.
The local legend of a small town is a jack o’lantern scarecrow known as Smiling Jack. This odd scarecrow appears every October, and disappears mysteriously after Halloween. Only, one year, things changed…
