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"I am teaching myself, with such poor aid as I can obtain from that miserable vagabond, Barilli, who is generally intoxicated three days out of every six. Did you expect to find Heine's yellow-haired Loreley, or a treacherous Ligeia, sitting on a rock, wooing passers-by to speedy destruction?" "I certainly did not expect to meet my friend Salome alone at this hour and place.
The story, then, divided itself into two parts: the first, in which Ligeia was alive, terminated with her death; and the second, in which she was dead, ended with her resurrection. Having thus arrived at the main outline of his plot, Poe was next forced to decide on the point of view from which the story should be told.
The place was found, the time midnight decided upon: but the question remained, how should Ligeia be resurrected? And here arose almost an insuperable difficulty. Yet now she must be revived.
So spirit-like, so ethereal, she seemed, as robed in white and veiled in silvery moon-beams she sat among the slumbering roses, and as she was gathered into the shadows of the entombing trees, that she might almost have been the "Lady Ligeia." Yet he knew that she was not. The "Lady Ligeia" had been but the creation of his own brain.
I had no lack of what the world calls wealth. Ligeia had brought me far more, very far more, than ordinarily falls to the lot of mortals. After a few months, therefore, of weary and aimless wandering, I purchased and put in some repair, an abbey, which I shall not name, in one of the wildest and least frequented portions of fair England.
Yet I believe that I met her first and most frequently in some large, old, decaying city near the Rhine. Of her family I have surely heard her speak. That it is of a remotely ancient date cannot be doubted. Ligeia!
Only One Best Way to Construct a Short-Story Problems of Short-Story Construction The Initial Position The Terminal Position Poe's Analysis of "The Raven" Analysis of "Ligeia" Analysis of "The Prodigal Son" Style Essential to the Short-Story.
The most intimate relation imaginable was that of husband and wife; he must therefore be the husband of Ligeia. The Lady of Tremaine, as we shall see later on, is not, technically considered, a character. The main outline of the story could now be plotted.
After Poe had, with his intellect, outlined step by step the structure of "Ligeia," he was obliged to confront a further problem, the problem of writing the story with the thrilling and enthralling harmony of that low, musical language which haunts us like the echo of a dream.
All that had to happen was the resurrection of Ligeia; and this the reader had been forced by the very theme of the story to foresee. The chief interest in the second part must therefore lie in determining where and when and how this resurrection was accomplished. A worthy setting must be found for the culminating event.
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