I posted my midnight tower sketch on facebook and a friend left a comment saying that it, "...looks like something out of a Poe novel or Sherlock Holmes."
My inspiration was really from the song, "Kiss From a Rose," by Seal.
"There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me...."
You became the light on the dark side of me...."
Nevertheless, when my friend mentioned Poe it made me wonder. I recently read two poems that Poe wrote. They were titled, "Annabel Lee" and "City in the Sea." Although I do not enjoy Poe's literature very much (the darkness of his work and of his life aren't appealing to me) and I was thinking of the song when I was inspired to create the picture, I can't help but wonder if subconsciously I was inspired or influenced by Edgar Allen Poe's poems.
2 comments:
"the darkness of his work and of his life aren't appealing to me"
They were/are to me!
Can you guess where I got the name for my firstborn? I love that poem.
Really?! That's cool, though. I think his stuff is very gripping... but it's also just so depressing.
Most people can probably handle Poe better than me. I'm more of a rainbows and butterflies type of person. lol ;)
Sweet! I never knew that Annabel's name was inspired by EAP's poetry. =)
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