Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'

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Edgar Allan Poe

Born in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was a famous writer known for his dark and twisted stories and poems. The Raven, being his most popular piece of work, paid Poe only $14. He wrote many stories in poems, almost all of which surrounded death and love. He died in 1849.

In the story, The Raven, the setting isn’t specified. The time took place on a late December, and that is all the author expressed. Along with the setting, there are only two characters acknowledged, and the author gave no details about who they were, however, the antagonist of the story is a raven.

In the story, the man, sitting in his undescribed room, gets a knock on his door. He opens it, and a raven flies into his room. The raven only says the word,

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