OPPOSITES ATTRACT

Breakups

For:
Emily Dickinson

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.








Against:
Edgar Allen Poe

For, alas! alas! me
The light of Life is o'er!
"No more- no more- no more-"
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!



Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe are writers of the American Renaissance. Each of them was ignored as a literary master during their lifetime.