Sunday, April 3, 2011

Poe, Philadelphia Portrait.

Mad as a Hatter

Alice in Wonderland, The White Rabbit

"The Raven", in ink.

National Poetry Month

I took a visit to the grave of Sarah Helen Whitman of Providence Rhode Island. She was engaged to Poe in 1848, it started with a poem he wrote to her, describing how he first saw her in her rose garden on Benefit St. He proposed in a cemetery, quite fitting for two characters such as themselves. She had a heart condition that forced her to carry a hanker-chief soaked in ether that she put to her mouth and breathed in often. She wore a coffin shaped pendant around her neck and dressed in black, and on Sundays, held seance's. The engagement was broken off after Poe broke his promise not to drink. He died a year later anyway...