Explication of Edgar Allan Poe's "To One in Paradise" and Comparison to Nicholas Sparks' "A Walk to Remember"
... with lush flowers and fruits, “A green isle in the sea love…all wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, and all the flowers were mine”. Life is perfect for him, and he feels voracious, until it all ended. Although it happens early in the poem, this ending of his perfect life is the climax of the poem. His love dies and he feels his world crashing down around him. He is no longer living in ecstasy and he realizes that perfection in life cannot last forever. Along with losing his love, it seems he is also beginning to lose his mind. He lives in a trace because his soul longs to be joined again with his lost love, who is now in paradise. The narrator had fallen deeply, truly in love with the woman and lost her in the peak of their happiness. This poem draws a definite parallel with Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember. In the novel, Landon Carter falls deeply in love with Jamie Sullivan, no matter how different they seem to be. Against all odds, they begin a friendship which eventually turns into true love. Landon loves Jamie more than he could ever imagine he would. He spends every moment he can with her and is elated whenever he is near her. But soon after they fall in love, Jamie reveals to Landon that she has leukemia and she is dying. Landon, like the narrator of To One in Paradise feels his life come crashing down around him. He walks around in a daze, not knowing how he will be able to continue when she is gone. She is the ...