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Poe's "The Conqueror Worm": Deeper Meaning To the Poem
We often call Edgar Allen Poe one of the fathers of terror and mystery.
His twisted, Macabre tales and poems are filled with great detail and often end
with a dismal twist. "The Conqueror Worm" is one example of his masterful
rhymes and tells how a play on life t ....
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.... background in everyone's life by "playing the music of the spheres." A
third set of characters that show hidden meaning is the "Mimes, in the form of
God on high." They denote the people that inhabit the earth. Poe describes
them as "Mere puppets they, who come and go at bidding of vast formless things."
The vast formless things are the ideas that we have. Ideas like the things that
we think we have to do for ourselves to survive and succeed. They also make up
drama of the play. A final, prominent figure in this dramatic performance is
the conqueror worm. Poe illustrates i ....
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