POE CENTENARY EXERCISES. 



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GRAVEYARD FORMERLY AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF 

 FORDHAM LANDING ROAD AND SEDGWICK AVE 



Possibly the source of Poe's imagery in Ulalume 

 From a Photograph by Comfort 



the trees among the rocks, the continual twisting of the stream, 

 the wide basin and lower hills of the Saw-mill creek end of 

 the stream, are all found in this romantic description. Poe 

 told Mrs. Whitman thai he walked on High Bridge at all 

 hours, and that he loved the place. 



Far more interesting than the Domain of Arnheim, how- 

 ever, is the other production of Poe's immemorial rear, 

 Ulalume, the mystical tone-poem. .Mrs. Whitman ten years 

 later thought she remembered that Poe had told her it had 

 been suggested by a midnight walk on the anniversary of 1 

 burial. It is of reviving life and ambition, pictured as a 

 beautiful woman, that Poe tells. She wanders with him on 

 a night in the lonesome October, until they are confronted 

 with a tomb, the tomb of his 1. ist Ulalume, and the mad grief 

 for the one he had lost returns. 



