CONCLUSION

Poe indirectly alludes to this history of Eldorado in his poem by referencing its famous unattainable desires; mocking the knight [Sir Walter Raleigh] for his ambition to find the mysterious "City of Gold". Through the stanzas the poem starts with a sense of hopefulness and slowly starts losing that hope.While analyzing Eldorado, we realized that this poem is one of the biggest cliché in our society. Eldorado is just a symbolic name for eternal life, something unattainable on earth, only attainable to those who die--who go "Down the Valley of the Shadow."