Intellect In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

¨Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...¨, is the beginning to a poem that took the nation, the world by storm. It changed the world of poetry forever, letting a new era sweep in and flourish. In the poem ¨The Raven¨ by Edgar Allen Poe, the phenomena known as the character of the Raven itself, is in fact a real Aves. Poe, was known for his exaggerated stories that, supplementally implied not to read his works word for word, or the interpretation of his stories could be completely different. Throughout the poem there are different pieces of textual evidence that with the right amount of intellect can be stated as proof that the Raven was indeed a truly real bird. Multiple times Poe expresses blunt attributes in what just in going on in his works, the same can be said for his poem “The Raven”. Poe may use exaggerations like when the narrator first recognises the figure to be a raven, “In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore”. It is just common knowledge that a bird just cannot be over hundreds of thousands of years old. But that only talks about part of …show more content…
People have very different minds from one another causing for the diversity of what Poe meant exactly with the Raven being real or not. That diversity though, brings people back around from believing that the Raven was just a figment of the narrator’s imagination to it being real again. For example, ravens and other bird species have enough of a cordial module to speak the complexity of a human word. So with enough work or enough exposure to any stimuli of any kind a raven or any animal with a strong enough intellect that has the complexity of brain patterns to reciprocate vocal patterns can copy or mimic such words. It is commonly known as Echopraxia.”Then the bird said “Nevermore.” So yes,“Quoth the Raven