Re: i am the walrus - edgar allan poe

[Apollo C. Vermouth]

There may seem to be several references
to Edgar Allen Poe spanning several albums.

Poe is known to to place ciphers in his works for the reader to solve. The most famous being, "The Gold Bug." Some works of his put the clues in plain sight as a tease to the readers. It is not a stretch to believe that this was an inspiration to place clues in the pictures and lyrics of the Beatles.

Poe is seen amongst the crowd on the
Sgt. Pepper cover.

Poe is mentioned in the song "I am the Walrus."

Poe may have been the inspiration for the song "Blackbird." His famous work "The Raven" comes to mind.

And, during the track "Revolution #9" the word "Eldorado" is heard. Poe penned a poem titled "Eldorado." I will post that post haste.

Poe's own death has been a mystery of sorts as well. One version has him being intoxicaed and kidnapped, forced by his kidnappers to place votes in different districts during an election.
His already ill health and added exhaustion caused his early death. Might that sound somewhat familiar?

One story concerning just one person found on the Sgt. Pepper cover. Many more to discover.

"There's nothing you can see that isn't shown."

"It's easy."

Apollo

[Apollo C. Vermouth]

ELDORADO
(Edgar Allen Poe)

Gaily bedlight,
a galient kniight
in sunshine and in shadow.
Had journeyed long,
singing a song,
in search of Eldorado.

But he grew old
this knight so bold,
and o'er his heart a shadow.
Fell as he found
no spot of ground
that looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
failed him at length,
he met a pilgrim shadow.
"Shadow," said he
"where can it be,
this land of Eldorado?"

"Over the mountains
of the moon,
down the valley of the shadow.
Ride, boldly ride"
the shade replied,
"if you seek for Eldorado!"

[TotalInformation]

Poe was assasinated by Freemasons for exposing their secrets in his short stories.

I'm going to be doing some more research into Masonic assassination to see how much the murder of James Paul McCartney fits the bill, but from what I know so far, it fits the bill.

Traumatizing The Beatles to establish greater control of them - ORDO AB CHAO. The coevr-up of the accident scene was most likely done thru a "spcial cases" unit of police, which in the UK would be run by Masons.

And, of course, Lennon started putting in his clues after Paul was killed, and one can draw an analogy there. . .

[joejoe]

Donovan made a nice song out of those lyrics on his "Sutras" CD.

[LUCY]

just a little backround fyi. i lifted this from the author qouted at the end:

"Possibly in conjuntion with the lure of the Gold Rush of 1849, Poe reflected on his own youthful quest(for literary achievement). As usual the poem takes oon merit and life of its own. The golden treasure(The Gold Bug) of the Inca legend of the "gilded one" became a familiar symbol for treasure seekers. California became synonymous in 1849 with Eldorado. Poe had already uised the term in "Dreamland" with the mixture of ideal and sad shadow.Voltaire and milton and others had used the Eldorado legend as well. The Incas have their own connected legends of the Sun and Moon but the Mountains of the Moon were the yet undiscovered source of the Nile and a legendary resting connection to the afterlife and heaven.

Using the figure of the knight is too sketchy to invest with much of the Spanish legend, Quixote etc. The knight is young and colorful, full of song. As in other Poe poems therefore the visual and the mucial start strong. Then a shadow falls over his heart("The Raven" at the end. Now for the second half of the poem, question and answer parallel to the quest and shadow of the first two stanzas.

His trength is failing and he asks this pilgrim shadow(a wanderer with the same character he now possesses). Similar to the Knights questioning about the Grail. The answer is a direction and a doom. As in "dreamland" the land is death wrapped in shadow, but holding the promise of fulfillment. More chilling than comforting, yet that is the strange mood Poe often conveys skirting the borders of death and the ideal. Is the "Ride boldly ride" a mocking or a renewal of first hope and vitality? Probably both and Poe will plunge toward it full of both the ecstasy and the horror. "Ligeia" and "Annabel Lee" and other works late or early seem intent on having the entire work of art create that ambiguous mood. Definitely a spiritaul jounrey symbolic of his life and expressing his heart's inspiration.
-- P.E. Murphy ([e-mail]), November 06, 2003 '"

[Perplexed]

Fascinating, Lucy.

Fascinating thread

[LUCY]

here's what John "gomez" Astin had to say about eldorado. he had a one man play based on poe and his writings...........

"Eldorado is a summation of the philosophy of this play: no matter what happens in life, you suffer that which is to suffer, enjoy that which is to enjoy, and you keep on riding forward with boldness and courage. That courageous journey is Eldorado itself. It is nothing outside of our lives. It is not another land where we will find solutions to all of our problems. Eldorado is in our own lives. If we learn to challenge the Mountains of the Moon with boldness and ride through that shadowed valley, we will live Eldorado.

[yellowmatter]

Really interesting - Might i suggest that it would be a good idea to study Lewis Carroll and his works also. We have already established that he influenced Lennon a great deal - heard of the "Jaberwocky" from Alice Through the Looking Glass anyone?