Did you know that poems usually have a hidden meaning. That meaning is usually about something that happened in the poet’s life. Sometimes the meaning is about an emotion. The poem Ulalume has both of these hidden meanings. Ulalume does a better job of expressing Poe’s feelings about the death of Virginia, because it gives more details, shows how he is coping with her death, and it shows what Poe is feeling.
The poem Ulalume uses strong words and phrases. In stanza 1 of the poem Ulalume it says “The skies they were ashen and sober: The leaves they were crisped and sere- The leaves they were withering and sere”. What that means is that the leaves are falling off the trees. They are crunching when