I know it is not really a question but I need help I have to write a literary analysis on the poem fairyland by Edgar Allen Poe
Fairy-Land By: Edgar Allan Poe
By: Marley Bennefeld

What is the sublime experience? According to romantic writers a mix of emotion, or boundlessness that can overwhelm or destroy the observer. For example, the moment between waking and sleeping, or the mix of natural and emotional. In the world of writing there is something called embracing the irrational. This is the joining of irrational opposites such as love and death, dark and light, hot and cold. The poem’s thesis is, the power of the sublime is constant, all-reaching, and is transformative in its illumination.

The poem starts by describing a world we cannot know inhabited by a luminary in constant motion. The setting is described as being dim, shadowy, and cloudy-looking. The tone of the poem is mysterious, unknown, and dark yet it is also magical and supernatural. Adding to the mysterious nature of the poem, Poe organizes it into one long stanza, making it feel, naturally waxing and waning like the phases of the moon. The rhythm of the poem rises and falls and rises and falls. The rhyme scheme while inconsistent is made up of AABB or ABAB rhyming couplets that alternate with the motion of the moon and the poem. When the moon moves the rhythm moves. For example, the shift in rhyme scheme at line six happens at the same time the speaker describes the moon moving across the sky every night “again-again-again”. The repetition and the rhyme shift highlight the ebbing and flowing of the moon along with its importance to the sublime experience. The rhyme scheme shifts again on both lines fifteen and twenty-eight. Correspondingly these lines are also where the speaker notes the movement of the full moon down to earth and back up in the morning.

Next, the speaker introduces the metaphor of the full moon. The large vast full moon represents the sublime, indicated by the image of the full moon crowing the mountain. In literature, a mountain commonly represents logic and accepted knowledge. In the moon’s moment of sublime, it has taken this unseen, dark world and lit it up, burring it in a labyrinth of light. Coming back to embracing the irrational talks about getting lost in the very thing that brings clarity. This light, this clarity that the full moon brings covers the sleepy fairies. On line twenty-five, the speaker talks about every drowsy thing. These fairies are being enlightened while there asleep. At this point in the poem, the fairies are in a passionate sleep. The fairies are passionate and advent while there sleeping, an action that is typically peaceful and calm. Poe is again embracing the irrational. The moon's journey ends in the morning, what was once a moonlight tent is now a blanket of dew.
These fairies now moonstruck are transformed by movement. Near the end of the poem, Poe uses the word butterfly when talking about the fairies, here the butterfly is a symbol for a change. Butterflies go through metamorphosis, so do the fairies. So, these “fairies” could be anything. In literature wings or winged creatures carry many associations such as angels, fairies, or demons but more importantly they represent an improvement. Poe says very little about the fairies, he calls them butterflies of the earth who seek the skies. So, we know that the fairies are changed and seek the thing that changed them, the full moon. The fairies also create this moment of sublime they are constantly in a dance with the moon. The full moon comes to earth while they are sleeping and gives them little bits of light. Then in the morning the fairies go looking for the moon and bring back what is left of it. So, it all comes back to this cycle of rising and falling, ebbing and flowing, waxing and waning.
This deceivingly simple poem very beautifully carries the sublime moment throughout the entire poem. This poem is based on the aspect of rising and falling. To tie it all together the fairies, these dreamers seeking knowledge they can never fully understand will always and forever be in this magical dance. Even if the fairies only ever come back with pieces Poe is telling us to seek the skies, reach for the stars, follow our dreams even if we can never fully understand what it is your seeking. If only we knew more. Why did Poe leave this world so unknowable?