Why Read This? - Edgar Allan Poe - Ligeia

Описание: In episode two of Strange Reads 'Why Read This?' series I look at Edgar Allan Poe's, Ligeia. My wife insists that anyone would love to be described like Poe describes, Ligeia. My understanding is that she wants me to describe her in 5+ pages.

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Vincent Price reads Ligeia, here:
   • Edgar Allan Poe: Ligeia read by Vincent Price  

Read it with your own voice here:
https://poestories.com/read/ligeia

Music
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Voices – Patrick Patrikios – YouTube Studio
Searching for the Alchemist – https://www.bothworldsmusic.com.au
Beyond the Lows – The Whole Other – YouTube Studio

Video Excerpts
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Penny Dreadful (2014) Showtime Networks
Haunting of Hill House (2018) – Netflix
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) – Warner-Pathe
The Tomb (2009) – Universal Studios
Camelot (2011) – GK-TV

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Chapter Settings
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0:00 Introduction
0:09 Edgar Allan Poe Biography
1:40 Brief Plot Outline
9:50 Story Inspiration
12:04 A Fond Farewell

Surprise bonus section – Ligeia WTF Happened?
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The following are a few things to consider about what happened in Ligeia. It would have been an extra section to our video, but we cut it for time concerns. Let us know what you think in the comments.
• Did the narrator bring Ligeia back through the will of his extreme love?
• Did Ligeia come back to life through her ferocious will to live?
• Did Ligeia teach the narrator magic with which to bring her back? ‘Her rare learnings’
• Is she a vampire of sorts? – Gothic Horror stuff? #VampiricAF
• Is Ligeia, not real, but a youthful and idealistic notion of love, concocted by the narrator while single, that is not equalled by the real-life Rowena? So, he returns to the ideal after Rowena’s death?
• Is the narrator high on opium and the whole thing is an unreliable narrator high on the midnight oil.
• The narrator states he despised his second wife. Did he poison her in an opium fueled rage and explain away the guilt by describing the freak supernatural resurrection of Ligeia?

In a letter, Poe, ‘Denied Ligeia is reborn in Rowena’s body’ but then refutes this later. Afterall, he likes the mystery.


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