Much of the rich landscape description reminds me of descriptions of early Earth history and complementing artist renditions of the planet's mightiest storms and upheavals. Of course, Poe layers this epic view of nature with the morbid ghost world, complete with a ghost king and subjects that the narrator once knew in the living world. Even the structure of the poem was in such a way that I didn't have to read it a second time to figure out what was going on. Overall it's a good poem, but it doesn't impact me the way longer literary forms can so it would feel weird to give a higher star rating. ( )