The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis Many people can have tragic lives. But some people's lives are way worse than others due to many reasons, and one of the biggest reasons is loss of someone and sorrow. Edgar Allen Poe was a famous poem writer and short story writer. Edgar Allen Poe had an extremely tragic and harsh life. This is because the three loves of his life died from tuberculosis and fought grief and anger for a long time. Many people say his poetry was based of his life. Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry was based of of real life experiences due to the fact that his poem “Annabel Lee” was about the death of virginia, his poem “The Sleeper” was about the death of his step mother, and his poem the raven was about him fighting against grief and pain and having

In the raven it said, “And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted-nevermore!” In this quote Poe is explaining that his grief and depression won't go away and he will always have to deal with this grief. Poe had so much grief with just everything in his life an was just basically fed up with it and didn't know what to do. Also, in the poem it stated, “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore.”

In this quote obviously his grief has over taken him. This is because he is in a room completely by himself and hears someone say Lenore. Poes poetry obviously had to have a major influence of his poetry as you could see from my reasoning. His poem “Annabel Lee” was about the death of virginia, his poem “The Sleeper” was about the death of his step mother, and his poem “The Raven” was about him fighting against grief and pain and having to deal with deaths. This is why his life played a major role in his poetry. Some people suffer like Poe, and others don't. But for those who do have to deal with things like grief an anger which is very hard to deal