Nevermore

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,” (Kinsella 327). The Raven was one of the most famous works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe (1809-1849) was closely associated with the American Romanticism Movement, which branched off into Gothicism which to story is set in bleak or remote places, the plot involves macabre or violent incidents, characters are is psychological and or physical torment, and a supernatural or otherworldly element often present (Kinsella 307). Poe’s upbringing fraught with illness, loss, and poverty influenced the mind of one of the world’s greatest poets.

Edgar Allan Poe was alive during the Tuberculosis outbreak. This outbreak effected Poe greatly. His mother Elizabeth Poe, his brother William Poe, Frances Allan his step father, and his wife Virginia Clemm all died from tuberculosis. The effect of the loss from the important women in his life lead to one of Poe’s themes of young women dying tragically (Szumski 15). Poe is widely accepted as the inventor of the detective story, and his psychological thrillers has been imitated by scores of modern writers (Kinsella 306). This is important because Poe is the reason why today the world has thriller stories and poems. Poe romanticized the literary world by connecting the natural feel of anxiety to become a destructive part of a person’s personality (Kinsella 307). This way the reader could connect with the characters anxiety.

“Poe’s The Raven” by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. This criticism discusses that Poe was interested in and disturbed by the question of the relationship between art and the world, subjective and scientific knowledge, and the possibility of knowledge and certainty. It also states that in the work The Raven the reply “nev...

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...e province of the poem” (Szumski 139).Poe rejected the world of sense and meaning. What will be the next work or style that challenges the literary world?

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Giammarco, Erica. “Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychological Profile.” Personality & Individual Differences 54.1 (2013): 3-6. Academic Search Premier. Web May 8, 2014.

Kinsella, Kate. Prentice Hall Literature. Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice Hall, 2005. Print.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven.” Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Vol 1: Poems. Cambridge: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1969. 364-69.

Szumski, Bonnie. Edgar Allan Poe. Greenhaven Press, Inc. San Diego, CA 1998.