"Since childhood I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw; I have not been able to derive my passions from a common source. From the same source I did not take my pain; I could not awaken my heart to joy with the same tone; and all that I loved, I loved only. Then - in my childhood, at the dawn of a stormy life - was drawn from every depth of good and evil the mystery that still binds me: from the stream, or the fountain, from the red cliff of the mountain, from the sun that rolled around me in its autumnal golden hue, from the lightning in the sky as it flew past me, from the thunder and from the storm, and from the cloud that took the shape(When the rest of heaven was blue)Of a demon in my opinion" - Edgar Allan Poe"Alone", the simple yet complex poem of Edgar Allan Poe, can be considered born from many different origins. What we know about the poem is that it is simply beautiful. Even though his beauty is known by the contrasting metaphors and what not, we must pay attention to why he wrote such a thing. Was it a basis for telling us his thoughts or was it just for our entertainment? For me, "Alone" is a direct insight into Poe's life and the difficulties that come with it. His constant struggles and losses transformed him into who he was during his time and in this poem he expresses exactly the same thing. He notices the good and bad of every event. “Alone” is the epitome of Poe's thinking and his vision of himself in the eyes of the public. From what we know of Poe, he was within himself; meaning that he did not seek outside help for his problems and struggles, but sought his own way of dealing with them. With the lines of the poem: "From childhood I was notas others were; I did not seeas others saw; I could not bring my passions from a common source." We can say that Poe knew from a young age that he was different from other people. He knew that he was on the left side of the psychological plane while others were on the right side. The things that made others happy did not have the same effect on Poe. “My passion from a common source” tells us exactly this when we read the poem.