Do you think this poem is about true love or about scary obsession? Can someone feel both feelings at the same time, or does one cancel out the other? Do you get a picture in your mind of the speaker? If so, where does it come from? How do you think Poe builds his character over the course of the poem?
Is real love possible at a young age? Do you need to be fully grown to really fall in love?
Do you think the end of this poem is beautiful? Do you think its weird subject matter makes it appealing?
Would you date Edgar Allan Poe?

Which two lines in this sonnet use symbolism to describe old age? sonnet 2 by william shakespeare when forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, where all the treasure of thy lusty days; to say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. how much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, if thou couldst answer 'this fair child of mine shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' proving his beauty by succession thine! this were to be new made when thou art old, and see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.