Read the full poem here.
First pass (I do not agree with this anymore but I thought I'd put my inital thoughts here): Margaret has fallen from grace. Poe percieves her to have true wisodm, yet she falls for him (he has a negative self view) over someone more popular. He decided to leave this as is and not overthink it, perhaps just happy to have Margaret.
After going through line by line and looking over the sources of each line, I have different thoughts.
Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt - Paradise Lost by Milton = Paradise Lost is a long poeam about Adam and Eve and the whole graden with the apple and snake debacle. Poe is comparing Margaret to Eve here. Margaret is tempted by the flashiness and ease of unintellectual poetry.
From the pure well of Beauty undefiled? - Somebody - I could not find the original source for this.
So banish from true wisdom to prefer/ Such squalid wit to honorable rhyme - Cowper's Task Book 1 - Pause to appreciate the oxymorons of 'squalid wit' and 'honorable rhyme'. Margaret used to appreciate true wit, but now does not engage with media that forces her to think but seems to be pure entertainment. Original line: Self-banished from society, prefer such squalid sloth to honorable toil. The subject of the original is a sofa. Poe is being tongue in cheeck here, the original teases those who prefer to lounge on a sofa instead of work hard, while Poe teases Margaret for engaging with slop content (lol) instead of real art.
To write? To scribble? nonsense and no more? - Shakespeare - I could not find the original line. I read this with a mocking tone from Poe.
I will not write upon this argument - Trolius & Cressida - Original line: I will not fight upon this argument. Hard to say without reading the entire play but the subject seems to refuse to bother refuting some claim (both literal fighting and rhetorically). Poe seems to be doing the same. He is literally not even writing his own poem, instead tweaking lines from other's works.
To write is human-not to write divine - Essay on Man by Alexander Pope - This is a poem??? Original line: To err is human - to forgive divine. Poe uses this this line to highlight his own divinity/intellect in writing.
Final thoughts: I contend that my final analysis of this poen is influenced by my vew of Poe as a jealous little man with a superiority complex. This poem addresses Margaret, who is not a lover, rather just someone who used to like witty and intellectual poetry and likes the flashy and fluffy stuff. Poe mocks her taste by not even writting his own poem, instead tweaking the lines of other's poems.works. He further ditances himself from "non-intellecuality" in this way.
Conflict: Lowkey the same as 'O, Tempora! O, Mores!' Poe is distraught at the lack of intellectual taste in the masses.