As Edgar Allen Poe once said, “we loved with a love that was more than love.” With this quote Edgar Allen Poe showed the meaning of love and romanticism. “Romanticism, more than anything else, is the cult of the individual--the cultural and psychological nativity of the I--the Self--the inner spark of divinity that links one human being to another and all human beings to the Larger Truth” (Romantism par. 2). In the Romanticism era of American literature there were many meaningful and important artists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, and James Russell Lowell. In particular, romantic author Edgar Allen Poe exemplifies the romanticism era two characteristics of insanity and fear, in his stories “Tell Tale Heart”
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Although Poe is often remembered for his short stories, he used The Raven as one of the many poetry pieces he wrote that used torture. Torture in writing is using people or things to torment the reader or have the characters torment the other characters in the writing (Draper 2751). In The Raven you have two characters, a man and a raven. In the poem the young man, one stormy night, opens a window to let in a raven that is perched outside the window. Once the bird comes inside, the young man finds out that the raven can only say one word, nevermore. Although the young man learns early on that he can only say one word, he still continues to ask the raven, for the sole purpose of torturing himself, questions that the young man knows he will not like the answer to. The Raven is a poem that combines everything very well and yet leaves nothing to be imagined (Person 13). As Charles Baudelaire notes in his introduction to the French edition of The Raven, “it is indeed the poem of the sleeplessness of despair; it lacks nothing: neither the fever of ideas, nor driveling terror, nor even the bizarre gaiety of suffering which makes it more terrible” (Draper 2751). In the poem you have a simple plot yet it was so compelling to many simply because of the one phrase “nevermore” which is the only thing that the raven could say (Person 13). This poem is often referred to as “the most beautiful love poem in the English language” (Draper 2751). The Raven is a poem that “successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideas” (Draper 2751). The Raven is one piece that will never go out of time due to its immensity of qualities that captivate the reader (Draper
Although Poe is often remembered for his short stories, he used The Raven as one of the many poetry pieces he wrote that used torture. Torture in writing is using people or things to torment the reader or have the characters torment the other characters in the writing (Draper 2751). In The Raven you have two characters, a man and a raven. In the poem the young man, one stormy night, opens a window to let in a raven that is perched outside the window. Once the bird comes inside, the young man finds out that the raven can only say one word, nevermore. Although the young man learns early on that he can only say one word, he still continues to ask the raven, for the sole purpose of torturing himself, questions that the young man knows he will not like the answer to. The Raven is a poem that combines everything very well and yet leaves nothing to be imagined (Person 13). As Charles Baudelaire notes in his introduction to the French edition of The Raven, “it is indeed the poem of the sleeplessness of despair; it lacks nothing: neither the fever of ideas, nor driveling terror, nor even the bizarre gaiety of suffering which makes it more terrible” (Draper 2751). In the poem you have a simple plot yet it was so compelling to many simply because of the one phrase “nevermore” which is the only thing that the raven could say (Person 13). This poem is often referred to as “the most beautiful love poem in the English language” (Draper 2751). The Raven is a poem that “successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideas” (Draper 2751). The Raven is one piece that will never go out of time due to its immensity of qualities that captivate the reader (Draper