poe , who some say simply loved to hear himself think , expounds upon this verse for twenty some single-spaced pages , boring some to tears , but to those who actually look up and understand all his words ( poe was nothing if not literate ) he brings out theat least on the face of itirrefutable truth : while the storm may well appear to be the begetter of life , life is in fact the begetter of , and senior to , storm .