Talk:Eldorado/@comment-4849011-20141228002239

This is my favorite of all of Poe's poems. I look at it as a simple and subtle, yet effective reflection on failure to achieve dreams and on man's mortality. I was really disappointed by the rendition in a John Wayne movie I saw part of one time. A character (played by someone other than John Wayne) started to recite the poem, but after reciting the first stanza he jumped right to the last two or three lines. It took all the meaning out of it, and it was the most pathetic and emasculated rendition of a Poe work I've ever encountered.