Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

I enjoy Edgar Allan Poe and his poetry, I have only read a some of his work, but I still enjoy what I have read. When reading this poem I believe that Edgar is putting a personal approach to this poem. What I got from this poem is that it is about growing up, being lonely and different at the same time. i think that the poem is talking about how being alone in the world, you are not the only one that is like you. They would understand what the other lonely person is doing.  In the poem this lonely person is I believe to be his personal experience of being lonely and different. Possibly his hope that he is not the only one in the world who is lonely and different in the world. I also believe that with this loneliness is what created the man known as Edgar Allan Poe. The loneliness created the person who he is today and the obstacles he has overcome. This poem is depressing but also shows a story of the of a man and his loneliness. If this is not about Edgar Allan Poe than this is about a random person, or a person he used to know.