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    The Raven is a narrative poem, about a man who has recently lost his love Lenore. Edgar Allan Poe is the author of this dark twist of the human mind. In the opening he is reading a book to try to keep his mind off of the grief. He is all alone, uneasy, grieving, sorrowful, and is not in his right mind. He starts to hear tappings on his door leading to a dark corridor. He is nervous because he realizes how late it is in the middle of the night. He begins apologizing to the person saying he was napping

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    on the floor shall be lifted-- Nevermore!" I cite, completing the final page to The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.. Thoughts begin to rush my mind like waves against the shore. "How could a tiny raven bring about the mass hysteria in a man and why was the raven personified with vocabulary like obeisance and craven?" As well as, "What would I do in a similar situation?" I begin to doze off pondering the traits of The Raven character and how it would be portrayed in my life should I have a similar experience

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    "The Raven" - Edgar Allan Poe's view about his own fate. Yordan G. Georgiev Shumen University Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is one of the most significant writers in the American history. Well known for its mystery and horror stories he is considered part of the Romantic movement in US and the inventor of detective fiction genre. On January 29, 1845 he publishes his poem "The Raven" in the "Evening Mirror" which granted

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    We at some point in our lives will go through a thing called grief, it might cause us great despair but that agony can’t be simply explained by words. Edgar Allen Poe however in a poem named “The Raven” tells a story of a man who is experiencing that grief over the loss of a loved one and a raven who just happens to drop by his place. He in the poem expresses the experiences and feelings of that man in a way that touches the reader, that it opens a part of us that has been through this or similar

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    Literary Analysis of The Raven The raven is a poem written by Edgar Allen Poe that is full of literary devices and symbolism. As we discussed in class, this poem has a lot of relatable traits to the reader. We see traits of sorrow, death, regret, guilt, madness, and grief. I will be analyzing and explaining this poem as we uncover theories and debates about what the poem and raven could represent to the reader. The poem is about a man who is mournful in the loss of his loved one Lenore. It is cold

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    Consequently this formed him to be a bleak and depressed person, with this outlook on life, it formed all of his work to what we know today, such as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Raven.” “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” - Edgar Allan Poe. In The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe transforms his literary works into the brutal

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    between his works and life became blurred after his death. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” published in 1845, is considered one of his best poems in his career as well as the best- known poems in American literature. The poem refers to an agonized protagonist’s memory of a deceased woman and like most of his writing, the story follows the common thread of death and loss. Many have thought that this poem is referring to Poe’s memory of his deceased wife,

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    The philosophy of composition talks about how he composed the poem the raven. In this essay he is thinking about how he wants to elicit emotion and he talks about how he going to accomplish through incident which is sort of the setting or the predicament of the poem. He addresses how he used this hypothesis amid the day and age in which he composed 'The Raven.' According to Poe, there are three fundamental speculations in regards to the written work of writing: length, impression passed on, and composing

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    Egdar Allen Poe’s, “The Raven” has gone down to be one of the most popular poems of all time. Poe wasn’t always successful though. He grew up poor and continued struggling his entire life until “The Raven” was published, but by that time Poe was near the end of his life. So one may wonder, “what make this poem special compared to his previous work?”. That is exactly why I chose this piece of literature to analyze. The themes revealed through this poem are as follows: memory and loss, rationality

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    what sparked inside of Poe to bring his ideas to life? In Poe’s literary works ”The Raven” and “The Bells” death predominates the style, characters, and symbols through the use of his vivid and original imaginations. “The Raven” is indeed one of many poems with a touch of insomnia and misery. It is also classified as a horror tale dealing with lunacy, visual emblems and the frightening use of originality. In this particular poem, a raven can mean either something ominous or satanic.

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