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The Sleeper, a poem written in the 1800''s, captured the audience's attention for its romantic tragedy. A man's lover is dieing from a horrifying disease that cannot be cured. Within the poem Poe is decribing how her sickness is taking over her body. Her energy and health decreased incessantly.
'' A conscious slumber seems to take, And would not, for the world, awake. All beauty sleeps! - and lo! where lies Irene, with her Destinies! '' -The Sleeper
Edgar Allen Poe's The Sleeper
Edgar Allen Poe
The poet was born in Boston, Mass. The psyhologically thrilling tales examining the depths of human psyched earned his popularity during his lifetime. Also had a obsession with death and violence and overall apprieciation of the beautiful yet, tradegic mysteries of life
