Symbolism In The Raven, By Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe was Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe 's tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story and many of his works, including “The TellTale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. "The Raven," which he published in 1845, is considered among the best-known poems in American literature. American writer, poet, and critic Edgar Allan Poe are famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The black cat”. The work that Poe’s got the specialty in death, fear, and silence. Death the black cat, and the men wife, the old died due to his blue eye, and the black …show more content…
The black cat is about the unfaith on objects such as the black cat that represent the evilness, bad luck, and irritation to men. The men love the black cat in the beginning as the story flow dramatically it changes his emotional condition then, due to his bad habits because as the alcoholic and he violate his wife. By his over thinking about the objects around him that make him more sociopath. He always gets irritated by sounds, light, and the black cat. “The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas, was the most usual and the most patient of sufferers”. That show the insanity and evilness of a mankind toward imagery object that doesn’t exist in real life. The situation happened to Edgar Allan Poe because in his adulthood he like one young actress and she has died in this same way as the men 's wife in this story buried in the wall. Second, Poe is also alcoholic the represent him as the men in this story and finally, unreliable and illogical that illustrated the mind status of Poe’s about thinking about things around him. All the above evidence that link life in his story that makes more interest to the reader …show more content…
The story can be the most powerful work for Poe because it represents the reality of fear and horror in kids that he also observed in his early childhood. The black crow illustrated the sign or symbol of fear and death. The horrible room of the boy with broken window, dark weather with the cold breeze with silence outside impact the young boy to have fear of darkness like a black crow that alway comes to his window every night by which the more mind and emotionally attach to it. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token”. This above stanza describes the situation and condition of that night that the young boy tolerates every night. Edgar Allan Poe’s life was filled with tragedy. The people that he loved in his life died too early—his parents and his wife, Virginia. Disinherited by his adopted father, much of Poe’s life was spent in poverty. While his wife suffered from tuberculosis, Poe wrote “The Raven.” When “The Raven” was published, Poe felt success for the first time. Poe’s life is full of mysteries that make his work more real and successful than, other poets because In Poe’s work everyone can compare their life toward his life. Live has ups and down that provide people to be

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