The Raven
The poem is about a student lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. It is one of Poe’s most famous works, along with “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “The Peculiar Song of the Red-Headed Stranger” The poem uses folk, mythological, religious, and classical references to make its point.
About The Raven in brief
The poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man’s slow fall into madness. Poe claimed to have written the poem logically and methodically, with the intention to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes. The poem was inspired in part by a talking Raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens. It was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. Its publication made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. It has since been reprinted, parodied, and illustrated, and remains one of the most famous poems ever written. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett’s poem \”Lady Geraldine’s Courtship\”, and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout. The poem has been translated into several languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. It was published in January 1845, and was first published in New York evening Mirror, New York City, and New England, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and London, New England. It is one of Poe’s most famous works, along with “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “The Peculiar Song of the Red-Headed Stranger” The poem is about a student lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore.
The raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word \”Nevermore\”. The poem uses folk, mythological, religious, and classical references to make its point. In the poem, the raven sits on a bust of Pallas just above the door of the student’s room. The bird beguilingly begs the student to tell him what is going on, and the student replies, “By the grave and sternum of the countenance of the lord, tell me what is the name of the Raven wandering from the Nightly Sea, on the ancient shorely shore, and in the ancient name of thy lord, thy shaven shaven and ancient lord, thou be sure I said, thou, I am sure no cravenly and grimly and ancient. I am not sure what it is, but it beguiled my sad fancy into smiling, into the grave, and into the sternum, by the grave. I beg you to tell me, thy lord lord, what is happening to me, and what is begging me to tell you, and nothing more.” The raven beguiles the student, and he says, “Perched upon my door just above my chamber door, just just above a bust, just in the gloom, and sat and sat, and sits, andnothing more” The student replies: “Surely that is something at my window lattice; let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore, let my heart be still a moment and this Mystery explore;— Open here here!
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