A major theme that can be found in Poe's writings though, is that of tragedy and lost love. ... "He was found in the bar room of a public house that was being used as a polling place for an election" (Poe's Life). ... Poe uses ghostly descriptions such as "incomprehensible lightness and elasticity of her footfall[,] [s]he came and departed as a shadow," "Marble hand," "low sweet voice," and "triumph of all things heavenly," that could suggest that Ligeia was more than human, if human at all ("Ligeia"). ... The narrator keeps...

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