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The Conqueror Worm

by Edgar Allan Poe · 2002

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Edgar Allan Poe's poem presents death as the closing act of a strange and grim stage production. Its imagery is ghoulish and its meaning cryptic, and at its heart lies the idea that no life can escape its ending. Poe is better known today for his stories than for his verse, yet these poems share the shadowy, macabre concerns of his fiction. The piece is a short meditation on mortality, offering readers a brief and unsettling look at the one certainty every person faces.

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