Everyone has experienced happy times in his or her lives. In "The Happiest Day," Edgar Allen Poe elucidates the truth behind happiness and the troubles that predictably follow. The narrator presents the new exhilaration of serenity in his life that engulfs him, but consequently puts him in a depressed state of mind that was even worse than before his enlightenment. Poe demonstrates that if anyone ever achieves happiness, the soul inevitably becomes miserable once again.

The first demonstration of the narrator's happiness articulates a repetition of sounds in the final syllables of the words at the end of each line. "THE happiest day--the happiest hour ... heart hath known ... pride and power ... I feel hath flown"(lines 1-4). Poe produces this rhyme to put emphasis on the new pleasure that the narrator experiences. At this time, the narrator is unaware of the disadvantages of this pleasure...