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It's actually very deep. Just read it when you're feeling depressed.It'll be like reading what you're feeling.

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I don't really have to pick a time to read it, then. But I really don't see what is so great about it. I think we compared it to some stages in human development in English. I just think Poe was drunk when he wrote it.

The Book is called

The Rose That grew From The Concrete

What's the name of the book?

well i dont listen to that style of music but last summer i had to go to summer school and the teacher i had made us read a whole bunch of his poetry i think he was an amazing writer and had awsome feeling in what he wrote nomatter who the reader is what style the person lives on they would have to be moved by his poems oh and yeah i do know the rose that grew from concrete

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"The Bells" is a really rigid poem, in my opinion. Not very deep at all.

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It's actually very deep. Just read it when you're feeling depressed.It'll be like reading what you're feeling.

what about E.E. ******* or Frost?

e.e. cummings or Robert Frost.

i dont think i have read that one, i read mostly ethnic poems(mexican)

"The Bells" is a really rigid poem, in my opinion. Not very deep at all.

I love "The Bells". It's quite interesting.

Yeah i hate that about school. I also write poems
I have a, or had a english teacher last semester that let us interpet the poems our self. I still keep in touch with her, She enjoys reading my poems. She said that i should publish my work

Actually, The Bells was one of his poems that I've always hated reading. It's quite irritating: Bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells...

Arg.

I like Israfel:

In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
"Whose heart-strings are a lute";
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel,
And the giddy stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.

Tottering above
In her highest noon,
The enamored moon
Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Which were seven,)
Pauses in Heaven.

And they say (the starry choir
And the other listening things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings-
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings.

But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep thoughts are a duty-
Where Love's a grown-up God-
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a star.

Therefore thou art not wrong,
Israfeli, who despisest
An unimpassioned song;
To thee the laurels belong,
Best bard, because the wisest!
Merrily live, and long!

The ecstasies above
With thy burning measures suit-
Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy love,
With the fervor of thy lute-
Well may the stars be mute!

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely- flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.

If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.

Poe is good. I get kinda tired of the repetitiveness of his poems but his style is so unique and interesting. I enjoy poetry a lot but I hate reading it in school b/c they don't allow you to read it and make your own interpretation of it. plus they always read the boring/childish poems. I like writing poetry. I'm not good at it tho, I always write a poem and think its great; then i go back and read it a week later and it sounds so stupid.

Poe is great......But I like tupac better, He talks about things that really happen in an ordinary. He talk about teen mothers, The government, black history(or civil right) and many many more subjects. Thats I why I think he's great

I love "the Bells". It sounds so musical.

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Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells !
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight !
From the molten-golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon !
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells !
How it swells !
How it dwells
On the Future ! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells —
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells !

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Tupac has got NOTHING on Poe.

He's cool. I was goint to do my research project on his death (it had to be on unsolved mysteries).
In 7th grade we all had to create our own version of "The Bells". I know I completely butchered it

Which one's do you like?

I still like good ol' fashioned Poe, despite that many of his truly great poems are not popular.

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Hardly. I am being realistic. Counter-cultures such as the hippies of the 60s or the beatniks or the 50s never lasted long. The "gansta" lifestyle is only another counter-culture of the 20th century.

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Don't call them beatniks they are just "beats" jack keuroac, alan ginsberg, neal cassidy, etc. Beatnik was made by the media to stereotype them by with bongos and berrets, they term beatnik was coined by a radio dj who thought they were communist and put sputnik and beat together.

oh, nevermind. May 1999. I figured it out for myself

He wrote children's poetry right?
I think I remember my 2nd grade teacher reading him to us often. I thought he died a while ago