E. Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, critic, poet and a Romantic journalist from America. He is one of the most famous writers of short stories in the world. He prompted the gothic novel, remembered by histerror stories. He is also considered the creator of the detective stories and he contributed to the science fiction movement too. The Raven is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1845. Heis the writer of very famous stories like Tamerlane and Other poems, the Raven, and one of the most reader stories of him by millions of people, the Black Cat.
The poem talks about a man who istrying to eases her pain because of the loss of Leonor, reading old books. He is being interrupted. The door opened and in the deep he says with low voice… Leonor… waiting her lost love, but just theecho answered. Later he starts to listen a noise on the window. There was a raven, a really big raven, on Pales, goddess of wisdom from Greek mythology. The Raven doesn’t talk with the man, it just say“never more”, when the man talks to it.
The poet experiments a conflict between the desires of forget and the desire of remember. The man knows that the raven just can say “never more”, and evenknowing that, he continues asking more and more questions. He is a tired man, and while the poem is developing the man is more crazy and mad, the raven is the cause of his madness. The repetitive phrasemakes him be crazier, and he doesn’t hesitate to ask and ask, knowing the answer will be always the same. He is desperate to know about Leonor, news about her, to be with her again. He wants her backwith him.
The writer wrote this poem as a narrative. This is one of the most famous poems in the work, especially in United States. There are lots of symbols in the poem. We have to highlight thecharacter of the Raven, the bird in the Poe’s novel. Poe uses an animal because they can talk. If the raven was a person, it was easy to answer all the questions of the man, but ravens can talk. Here...