What Does The Eye Symbolize In The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe has written many short stories and poems. His most know short stories and poems include The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven. In the book The Gold Bug and Other Tales and the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe there are recurring themes in his stories The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven. The themes he uses often are terror, approaching death/ taunting death, and symbolism/metaphor. In The Pit and the Pendulum Poe experiences terror many times. The first time he is seeing the engraving of his name on a coffin. This could also represent death taunting him as he is on his way to die. The fear of being alone in the dark every one fears and Poe brings that fear into his story to give us a personal connection to him. In the story he is in a dark empty room alone. There is no sound or even the slightest bit of light for him to see. Then after a short slumber he walks across the room. He falls just short of a hole in the floor. Still unable to see he is terrified that his only decision are to either take the short death and plunge into the hole or stay on the sides and …show more content…
It is called the vulture eye and the Evil Eye. In Norris myth the eye refers to Odin 's all Seeing Eye. Spiritual believers believed that your soul can be reached through your eye and if someone were to take your picture your soul would be stolen. Others believe the eye is the window to the soul. The term Evil eye refers to a cult called the Evil Eye. Vulture eye is manipulation and preying on the innocent. In the poem The Raven there is a lot of symbolism and metaphors. “Prophet! said I, thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil…” (The Raven p. 3/5). Ravens are symbols of death, approaching death and evil. Other symbols Poe uses are a dark plume and a token. Tokens are often used to symbolize appreciation of remembrance of a visitor. A dark plume is a symbol of a black flag, sign or bad