This essay will be about the poem “The Raven” written by Edgar Allen Poe. The reason I choose this poem out of all the material that we have covered so far in class is because of the deep fascination that I have for the writer. Ever sense my first time reading “The Raven” back in high school I have been pondering the multiple meanings of the story. I have a feeling the reason I am so entranced with Poe’s works is raw emotion that he puts into them. Or maybe the reason I appreciate Poe’s writings is because he explores the dark side of human nature using his own experiences to fuel the stories and poems. In all of Poe’s works the main character is fighting some “demon,” be it physical or mental. Such as in “The Raven” where the main character
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This is shown throughout the poem by symbolism. Some of the symbols that I am going to point out are “volume[s] of forgotten lore” (121 Poe), the dying embers, the darkness after opening the door, line 27 “silence was unbroken and the stillness gave no token,” the raven, the bust of Pallas and the word never-more spoken by the raven. There is really nothing proving that my theme for this poem is correct besides how I read the tone and symbols to be. There is a number of different ways to read “The Raven” and a number of themes that can be taken from the poem. All the symbols are but how I preserve the poem. The “volume[s] of forgotten lore” (121 Poe) could mean the memories that the main character has of his late wife. The embers in line eight have the double meaning of life. I mean this by how the cycle of a fire and the process of a human life play out. Like how the start of a flame is just a spark which grows to a brilliant flame before then …show more content…
These objects relate deep meaning to the theme that I found within the poem. I also felt that if left unmentioned many people would over look these things as meaning only for the object or thing that they were. The entire poem itself is about the main character in agony over the death of Lenore. Which in itself is the theme that I came to the conclusion to after analyzing the poem and all the symbols that I could find, the one mentioned above and the one that went
This is shown throughout the poem by symbolism. Some of the symbols that I am going to point out are “volume[s] of forgotten lore” (121 Poe), the dying embers, the darkness after opening the door, line 27 “silence was unbroken and the stillness gave no token,” the raven, the bust of Pallas and the word never-more spoken by the raven. There is really nothing proving that my theme for this poem is correct besides how I read the tone and symbols to be. There is a number of different ways to read “The Raven” and a number of themes that can be taken from the poem. All the symbols are but how I preserve the poem. The “volume[s] of forgotten lore” (121 Poe) could mean the memories that the main character has of his late wife. The embers in line eight have the double meaning of life. I mean this by how the cycle of a fire and the process of a human life play out. Like how the start of a flame is just a spark which grows to a brilliant flame before then …show more content…
These objects relate deep meaning to the theme that I found within the poem. I also felt that if left unmentioned many people would over look these things as meaning only for the object or thing that they were. The entire poem itself is about the main character in agony over the death of Lenore. Which in itself is the theme that I came to the conclusion to after analyzing the poem and all the symbols that I could find, the one mentioned above and the one that went