Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven
“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.”
The writer of these words was enchanted by darkness...thrilled by death.
What sort of person would spend their whole life linking hands with Death
and her counterparts? Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of Edgar
Allan Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, E.
A. Poe had quite a collection of works from his lesser known stories to his
most famous poem, “The Raven”. This great man’s life has been analyzed to
death (no pun intended) to find key’s to unlock the maze of his apparent
creativity. Here, the reader will find only an in depth look at ...
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the point of insanity (see Appendix R) (Decoder, Internet).
The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the
death of Poe’s wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, Internet). As it is read, a
definite rhyme scheme is present: internal rhyme in the first and third line,
and end rhymes in lines two, four, and five. All eighteen stanzas of the poem
are arranged like this, but Poe never makes it seems unexciting or
repetitious. Probably the most noticeable and most brilliant aspect of “The
Raven” is it’s saturation of symbolism. The raven (see Appendix R) itself is
the main symbol, representing the man’s self-torture uncovered in the work.
Because the raven does not comprehend or reason it’s answers, it allows the
man to interpret them however his mind allows, which gives the reader a look
at the mind’s unstable mind state. The bust of Pallas that the raven perches
upon to preach its “wisdom” is ...
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of Virginia. He was a good student, but eventually turned to
gambling to pay debts. It was during this time that Poe had his first
romantic interest which ended on a harsh note (see Appendix E) Despite
grades and ambition, Poe had to leave college because of lack of money. A
year later he enlisted in the army for two years, after which he entered
Westpoint. Then, halting his solitary life, Edgar married his 13 year old
cousin, Virginia, in 1836. On October 5, 1849, he was found unconscious and
on drugs; three days later he died, possibly of rabies (Qrisse, Internet).
(see Appendix R) Edgar Allan Poe’s appearance is a suprisingly interesting
topic, one that may be ...
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