An Analysis of the Deeper Meaning to the Poem The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe Essay

Poe's "The Conqueror Worm" Deeper Meaning To the PoemWe often call Edgar Allen Poe one of the fathers of terror and mystery.His twisted, Macabre tales and poems are filled with great detail and often endwith a dismal twist. "The Conqueror Worm" is one example of his masterfulrhymes and tells how a play on life turns into reality for mankind.The setting is a theater but it is not just a site for plays. Poedescribes it to be that way to trick the reader, but the theater is actually thesetting for mankind. We play our lives in this stage for everyone else to see.Lines three through six describe the crowd and how they are there to see "a playof hopes and fears." If people would look beyond the point of reading the linejust to understand the words, they would see that the play is actually the livesof everybody in society. I say this because everyone has their own hopes likegetting a good job, succeeding, having a family and ultimately dieing happily.Along with their hopes, everyone also has their personal fears.The characters of the poem are also some very meaningful keys in showingthe hidden meaning. The first stanza describes the crowd that has gathered towatch the enactment of our human lives. Lines three and four states "an angelthrong, bewinged, and bedight in veils, and drowned in tears." Poe is statingthat a group of angels is going to watch the spectacle put on for them, althoughthey are already drowning in the tears from plays before. The orchestra thatplays for them is another set of characters that have meaning. They representthe background in everyone's life by "playing the music of the spheres." Athird set of characters that show hidden meaning is the "Mimes, in the form ofGod on high." They denote the people that inhabit the earth. Poe describesthem as "Mere puppets they, who come and go at bidding of vast formless things."The vast formless things are the ideas that...

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