Edgar Allan Poe this is a name we should all know. Poe is known for his dark and gothic short stories and poems. Poe is also known for his “Poetic Principle”. This principle professes that “through poetry beauty is achieved and through prose truth is achieved.” Some people beg to differ with this statement, while I for one agree with it. Even though people assume that beauty cannot be achieved with poetry because beauty is simply an aesthetic thing and that truth cannot be achieved with prose because stories are nothing but fiction, I correspond to Poe because for me beauty is inside and outside and can be achieved through poetry because poetry gives you a different perspective on how you conceive of the world. I also agree with Poe that truth can be achieved through prose because most stories have a deep moral lesson to learn. What is beauty? The Merriam-Webster dictionary explains beauty as the quality of being physically attractive and the qualities in a person or thing that give pleasure to the senses or mind. Beauty, as stated above, can be a quality in a person that you find attractive. The Bible says, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at what man looks at. Man looks at the appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7 NIV) This proves that beauty is not only outside, but also inside. Poetry can make you beautiful. Poetry gives deeper meaning to things you think are too small to be significant. For example, in Poe's poem "Annabel Lee", Poe says "...the wind came out of the cloud at night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee." In this example the wind could be more than just wind; it could be an illness, such as t...... middle of paper ......internal interpretation about the way you perceive the world; the truth is expounded in prose because of the internal moral lesson to be learned. Works Cited: • "Beauty." Merriam Webster. Merriam-Webster and Web. November 18, 2013. .• "1 Samuel 16:7 (New International Version)." BibleStudyTools.com. Np, nd Web. November 20, 2013. .• Hood, David . “Find your creative muse.” Find your creative muse. Np, nd Web. November 20, 2013. .• Edwards, Clifford. "So does the crow." Salem Press Inc. unknown (2002): unknown. Print.• Poe, Edgar. "The heresy of teaching." Poet.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. November 21. 2013. .