To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter
"To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter" is a short poem by Edgar Allan Poe in which a helpless lover confesses he cannot free himself from a consuming fascination — not for want of trying, but because some deeper spell holds him fast. Poe draws a chilling parallel between the lover and a bird lured down from safety by a coiling snake, circling its own destruction until the final, inevitable blow falls. Romantic longing and doom intertwine in just a few tightly wound stanzas.
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