The passage about Edgar Allan Poe contains formal writing characteristics, which are used to communicate in a business or academic environment, or with people we are not acquainted with. For example, the text does not include contractions or slang, it is not written in the first person and it makes use of the passive voice. Furthermore, it possesses some compound sentences, and its vocabulary consists of longer words than in informal language, some of which have Latin and Greek origins.
The theme is to enjoy the simple things in life such as the stars and each other. The poem shows that the characters should be doing something else but they prefer to stay under the stars enjoying them
