How do you think Edgar Alan Poe defines beauty in the following quotes? Focus particularly on the first, controversial quote. What do you think he means by this strange quote?
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
-Edgar Alan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
-Edgar Alan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
-Edgar Alan Poe
So much emotion can be shown when you lose someone you think is beautiful. There is much to write about. Perhaps he doesn't mean physical beauty, but emotional.
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I think Edgar Alan Poe wasn't so much concentrating on the emotional aspect of death in the sense that it is sad. I think that he was acknowledging the parallel of death and beauty; recognizing two very different phenomena taking place at the exact same moment in such a paradoxical way that it itself is poetic.