Poem by Edgar Allen Poe Visuals, Music and Read By Jon Wiltzen

THE RAVEN is one of Poe's best known poems. I designed a video with a near atmosphere. I adore POE,so this is a tribute to the immortal writer and poet! This song is performed by the band "The Alan Parsons Project" and it takes part in the album, "Tales of Mistery and Imagination , Edgar Allan Poe" . The awesome illusions belong to the great artist Rob Gonsalves.

Edgar Allan Poe's Two Words

Video made for a presentation to the Edgar Allen Poe poem Annabel Lee. Speaker: Basil Rathbone Music: High Charity---Halo2---by Martin O' Donnel

Edgar Allan Poe cartoon made with trial version of Toon Boom software and other programs. Granted, the animation is a bit limited, but until two weeks ago, I had never tried to animate anything. I do have too much time on my hands. This took about four hours total. But it was fun time and another good learning experience. Annabel Lee is the last poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Written in 1849, it was not published until shortly after Poe's death that same year, appearing in two newspapers. Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me — Yes! — that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

This video is copied from a video I saw on the Net featuring Poe's poem but without any reading of the words, just music and a picture. I have added my reading of the poem and put some movement into the picture. The amazing photo is 'Elysium' by Wyrd and can be seen on flickr.com and the entrancing music is by Der blaue Reiter from their album Le Paradise Funebre. The video is from Josh's blog - see ulr below - and my thanks to him for allowing me to use his wonderful idea.

To One in Paradise

You were all that to me love
for which my soul did pine:
a green isle in the sea love
a fountain and a shrine
all wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers
and all the flowers were mine.

Ah dream too bright to last!
Ah starry hope that did arise
but to be overcast!
A voice from out the future cries
"On! On!" - but o'er the past
(dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
mute, motionless, aghast.

For alas alas with me
the light of life is o'er.
No more no more no more
(such language holds the solemn sea
to the sands upon the shore)
shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
or the stricken eagle soar.

And all my days are trances
and all my nightly dreams
are where thy grey eye glances
and where thy footstep gleams -
in what ethereal dances
by what eternal streams.

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I hope that the great poem of E.A. Poe and the music of KITARO - Dance flower will bring to you blissful moments