Common Raven

How did Edgar Allan Poe’s life influence his poems Edgar Allan Poe had a very depressing life which is believed to have heavy influence on his writing. Many people say that because of the hard, sad, and depressing life that Poe experienced is the reason why his writing’s are very dark, mysterious, and emotional. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. Poe had a very hard life, he grew up with no parents and he never really had a place to call home. Edgar didn’t…

During the 1700’s poetry was primarily focused on politics & religion. Writers wrote about their personal issues and how they viewed subjects and relevant topics such as the government, slavery or any political issues that they found relevant enough to write about. In comparison to the early 1800’s writers moved away from religious and political writing and more toward writing about culture and life at home. As the 1800’s progressed you began to see a distinct change in literature, by the time…

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. In The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe allows his audience to believe that supernatural things make your mind exaggerate the results. The raven and the narrator are the two characters present in The Raven. These two characters are fully on board with the topic of supernatural. The narrator believes that this talking raven is really in his chamber to harass him. Lenore, the narroraters dead wife, is only spoken of. It is inferred that she is the…

In 1984, John Schnatter made a decision to invest money into his father’s business. Mick’s lounge was not doing well, and on the verge of bankruptcy. Schnatter had just graduated college at Ball State University, so he did not have any money. He came up with a plan to sell his prized possession, his 1972 Camaro. The decision was not an easy one, but he knew this would allow him to save his father’s lounge. Schnatter knew the lounge alone was not sustainable over a long period of time, so he came…

“The Raven” Edgar Allen Poe The poem “The Raven” is written by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe is a poet who normally writes from experiences he has had in his life. He is known to write more strange, dark, and different poems than other poets may. In his poem, “The Raven”, the speaker is in his home thinking, almost falling asleep, when he hears a tapping at the door. Throughout the first half of the poem, the speaker thinks it is a person. He soon comes to find out that it is a Raven. The speaker…

The Wander is an Elegy-style poem that depicts the suffering, exile, and memoirs of an anonymous narrator who refers to himself differently according to what part of his life he is sharing; a "Lone-dweller", an "Earth-stepper", ect. Although it is commonly believed that there is only one narrator, there is still a lot of debate on whether or not there was only one narrator throughout the poem or if there were several. The Wanderer is believed to have been created around the 5th or 6th…

There is a great deal of well-known poets that lived a very tragic life. There is a great deal of depth in many people’s poems. I personally believe however that one person in particular has suffered through tragedy throughout his life, and his poems are fun to read and decipher the true complex meaning behind the words. Robert Frost is an early twentieth century American poet, who in the poem, “A Late Walk,” wrote about complex social and philosophical themes set in rural life in New England.…

In Robert Pack’s poem “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page”, the narrator is uncertain about what comes with death. He worries about his future and what may happen to him. As the narrator asks questions into the emptiness, he finds answers in the echoes of his voice. Robert Pack uses literary devices such as rhetorical questions, selection of detail, metaphors, juxtaposition, and connotation to construct the meaning of his poem. Beginning in the first quatrain, the voice is very anxious and…

Francesco Petrarch’s Sonnet 333 represents his feelings towards a woman and his life. Petrarch explains his feelings by conveying a dark, melancholy tone at the beginning of his sonnet and a more hopeful tone towards the end. He uses irony in the form of a paradox to convey that his love for a woman is alive, although she is dead. He also juxtaposes death and life, and hope and sadness throughout his sonnet. By using metaphors, paradoxes, and diction Petrarch shows his love, grief, and longing…

The poem “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an Petrarchan sonnet that has an octave followed by a sestet. It explains the type of feeling the speaker is having with a main theme of death. The poem contains Longfellow’s self-reflective thoughts. He thinks about the passed time, past mistakes, his lost aspirations, his current situation and the hopes that he has for the future. He starts feeling as though he has not accomplished what he had hoped to by this point in his life, and he…