Amy and Edgar Alan Poe?

[sweetserenity]

Does Amy like Edgar Alan Poe?

[Robynn]

No idea....it's a question worthy of the EVFanClub boards in the "ask Amy" thread.....

[imaginarywhisper]

There's definitely sufficient evidence to prove that she does.

One big example I found just a few minutes ago was in Haunted.

Hunting you, I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head

These lyrics definitely could be connected to Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.

[nyohah]

I don't know if that's really convincing evidence. Maybe if we can get a big enough list of things that could be evidence but could also be coincidence, then we can be convincing. There were also those photos with the raven... Can anyone else think of something?

I wouldn't be surprised if she did like him. I mean, come on, Edgar Allen Poe is awesome. My favorite story is "The Cask of Amontillado", and my favorite poems are "The Raven" (duh) and "For Annie". Everyone knows "The Raven", but you should really find and read "For Annie". It's gorgeous.

[unicorn07]

I don't think photos with the raven would be a good example, I only say this because most photoshoots are ran by the stylest and photographer. I mean Ev has said there not goth, but every magazine makes there photo shoots "goth" like.

I wouldn't be surprised if Amy like Edgar Allen Poe, but then again I wouldn't be shocked if she didn't, she has so many inspirations and likes everything from Micheal Jackson to Nightmare Before Christmas!

[sweetserenity]

robynn said:

No idea....it's a question worthy of the EVFanClub boards in the "ask Amy" thread.....

Aww I'm not a member there. Thanks though! [/size]

imaginarywhisper said:

There's definitely sufficient evidence to prove that she does.

One big example I found just a few minutes ago was in Haunted.

Hunting you, I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head

These lyrics definitely could be connected to Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.

"No Tell-Tale Heart was left to find When you You mourned the death of your bloody valentine One last time." Lol. Sorry. Good Charlotte moment there.

That's pretty good. But I don't see that being Edgar Alan Poe like. Well nevermind. Yes I do.

"I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed. I held the lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I could maintain the ray upon the eyes. Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!-- Do you mark me well? I have told you that I am nervous: so I am...."

He was hearing his own heart beat because he was nervous that the visitor might know what he had done to the old man. Well not it that passage but he was hearing his own heart beating. I can hear mine right now. lol.

nyohah said:

I wouldn't be surprised if she did like him. I mean, come on, Edgar Allen Poe is awesome. My favorite story is "The Cask of Amontillado", and my favorite poems are "The Raven" (duh) and "For Annie". Everyone knows "The Raven", but you should really find and read "For Annie". It's gorgeous.

I have the complete works of Edgar Alan Poe.

"Complete Tales & Poems
Edgar Alan Poe."

[nyohah]

So do I.

[Robynn]

nyohah said:

So do I.

As do I. I should pull it out some day and actually READ it. I guess I'll start it after the Stephen King books I have. Finishing the Dark Tower series, then I have Odd Thomas...then I can start on it. I've read quite a bit of his work, but I've not read even more. Maybe I'll take the book to work, and leave it in my locker and read it on my breaks.....

[EvenInDeath46]

I remember that some people on EvBoard were talking about how Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee," sounds similar to the story told by the lyrics of "Even In Death." Who knows? Amy Lee could definitely like Poe.

[nyohah]

robynn said:

nyohah said:

So do I.

As do I. I should pull it out some day and actually READ it. I guess I'll start it after the Stephen King books I have. Finishing the Dark Tower series, then I have Odd Thomas...then I can start on it. I've read quite a bit of his work, but I've not read even more. Maybe I'll take the book to work, and leave it in my locker and read it on my breaks.....

I haven't read mine either. At all. I've only had this one for a few months, though. I also have a much smaller paperback book that's more "Many of the Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe", and I read all of that one. The stories get pretty old if you try to read them all in a row. I have a huge list of books to read, but I think I should try to read a story or two in between each book.

[sweetserenity]

evenindeath46 said:

I remember that some people on EvBoard were talking about how Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee," sounds similar to the story told by the lyrics of "Even In Death." Who knows? Amy Lee could definitely like Poe.

Yea, I remember that! Maybe I should read it and see if I think the same.

I have this one book of 8 of his tales. I think it's called "Eight Tales Of Terror." Edgar Alan Poe. Or something to that effect. I have it up in my room. But it has a painting of what looks to be an old abandoned shack/house/cabin, like something you'd see in the classic horror movie.[/size]

[Angelic Malice]

evenindeath46 said:

I remember that some people on EvBoard were talking about how Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee," sounds similar to the story told by the lyrics of "Even In Death." Who knows? Amy Lee could definitely like Poe.

I never really saw that connetion. I mean, if it's like...a continuation fo Annabell Lee(So to speak), I think it would make more sence.

[sweetserenity]

angelicmalice said:

evenindeath46 said:

I remember that some people on EvBoard were talking about how Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee," sounds similar to the story told by the lyrics of "Even In Death." Who knows? Amy Lee could definitely like Poe.

I never really saw that connetion. I mean, if it's like...a continuation fo Annabell Lee(So to speak), I think it would make more sence.

They're saying that there is a similarity.[/size]

[Angelic Malice]

sweetserenity said:

angelicmalice said:

I never really saw that connetion. I mean, if it's like...a continuation fo Annabell Lee(So to speak), I think it would make more sence.

They're saying that there is a similarity.

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I understand that much. I'm not saying there isn't. It's just a bit hard for myself to see.
XD

[sweetserenity]

angelicmalice said:

sweetserenity said:

They're saying that there is a similarity.

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I understand that much. I'm not saying there isn't. It's just a bit hard for myself to see.
XD[/quote]

Oh. lol. Okay. I'm going to go read it now and see if I think there a similarity.[/size]


Okay. I see how some think there's a similarity.

First off, this poem is about being in love and that loved one dying.

Second:

"And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

"The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!— that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the could by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."


Does it ring a bell with: "They don't know you can't leave me, They don't hear you singing to me. I will stay forever here with you, my love?"

Third:

"But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angles in heaven above,
Nor the deamons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee,"

Ring a bell with: "Some say I'm crazy for my love, my love (my love) But no bonds can hold me from your side, hah my love."

Forth:

"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea."

Ring a bell with: "Moonlight on the soft brown earth It leads me to where you lay," "I will stay forever here with you, my love The softly spoken words you gave me Even in death our love goes on And I can't love you anymore than I do. 'People die, but real love, is forever.'"?

Fifth:

Annabel's last name is Lee.[/size]