
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Text the show
Although I expected a haunting contemplation of death and its eerie silence, and despite my supposed I would read here a meditation on the Gothic horror of decay, I had all such suppositions overturned. Initially it seemed this poem was a question of whether life would be beautiful if there were to be no eternal sleep. Now I see it more in its true light: as a celebration of devoted love and the peace we can come to when confronted with death, an astonishment at the pulchritudinous state of a woman who has passed. All of these and more are the focus of today’s episode - the dark, dream-like poetry of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper.
Join me as I tell and explore one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most romantic poems, and how it traverses with subtle Gothic beauty the mourning of a lost loved one.
Teachers, students, horror literature fans, Halloween lovers, and Poe enthusiasts like myself…let’s dive right in.
Subscribe, like, share and give the podcast a great review!
Support The Poe Show! https://ko-fi.com/thepoeshow
Website: https://www.thepoeshow.com/
Episode music and narration by Tynan Portillo.
Horror Movie Reviews on The Poe Show YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thepoeshowpodcast
Bluesky: thepoeshow.bsky.social
TikTok: @poeshowpodcast
Instagram & Threads: @thepoeshowpodcast
Email: [email protected]
Intro music by Emmett Cooke on PremiumBeat.
Support the show
By Tynan Portillo4.6
55 ratings
Text the show
Although I expected a haunting contemplation of death and its eerie silence, and despite my supposed I would read here a meditation on the Gothic horror of decay, I had all such suppositions overturned. Initially it seemed this poem was a question of whether life would be beautiful if there were to be no eternal sleep. Now I see it more in its true light: as a celebration of devoted love and the peace we can come to when confronted with death, an astonishment at the pulchritudinous state of a woman who has passed. All of these and more are the focus of today’s episode - the dark, dream-like poetry of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper.
Join me as I tell and explore one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most romantic poems, and how it traverses with subtle Gothic beauty the mourning of a lost loved one.
Teachers, students, horror literature fans, Halloween lovers, and Poe enthusiasts like myself…let’s dive right in.
Subscribe, like, share and give the podcast a great review!
Support The Poe Show! https://ko-fi.com/thepoeshow
Website: https://www.thepoeshow.com/
Episode music and narration by Tynan Portillo.
Horror Movie Reviews on The Poe Show YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thepoeshowpodcast
Bluesky: thepoeshow.bsky.social
TikTok: @poeshowpodcast
Instagram & Threads: @thepoeshowpodcast
Email: [email protected]
Intro music by Emmett Cooke on PremiumBeat.
Support the show

228,803 Listeners

38,798 Listeners

1,622 Listeners

8,718 Listeners

4,257 Listeners

369,352 Listeners

99,461 Listeners

644 Listeners

32,701 Listeners

3,373 Listeners

4,457 Listeners

239 Listeners