A Literary Analysis Of The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

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One of the questions that many poeple have is if The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is real or just an imaginary character. Throughout the reading of the poem we can see that it can be related with a real character or a fictional character, however, Poe left us intrigued and with a doubt to discover it in our own way. There are many factors that make us think that Raven could be real but that it could also be an imaginary character. This first stanza gives the introduction to the Raven and makes us question if he is real or fictional:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary. Over many a quaint and curious volume o forgotten love - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping. As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ‘Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more." …show more content…

The mood of the poem seemed very relaxed, as the poem goes on we can see how the narrator is having a fight with his own mind because he thought that his wife is still alive and that she is making all those sounds, or if hes just getting out of control and its a demonstration of the fallen angel known as the devil? The setting helps us make an idea of the different events, it describes the weird feeling and a spooky aspect of the story. The way he described every detail of the poem even the sound of the wind make it feel frightening to read

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