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Lenore The Raven

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This poem is a very dark and sad work of literature, there are many instances that the reader must read between the lines and know some background information on Poe before they can really understand what is taking place. Everytime Poe says the name Lenore he is referring to his wife, who passed away from tuberculosis. This was one of the motivators to Poe’s dark and somewhat frightening poems and his other works of literature. In The Raven he sees a spirit in the form of a raven sent to him by the devil, but when Poe first hears and knock on his door, he just thinks it is someone coming to take his life. He is excited by the fear of his life being taken because once he dies he can then see his sweet Lenore again. At this point the reader

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