Allegory In The Raven

The poem makes some allusions, for example when referring to the bust of shovels, refers to the bust of atene or atena or "shovels athena" ie the crow perches on the Greek goddess of wisdom, civilization, war, art and strategy . "That bird or demon" rests on wisdom, according to the author of the poem, the time of year in which the poem is located is December, a month of much magic, but the most important allegory is the raven itself, "bird of the demon "" that comes from the plutonic riviera of the night "also refers to the crow as a messenger from beyond, in a few words it refers to the Roman god Pluto of the underworld, its equivalent for the Greeks was hades as a curious fact the Romans instituted exclusive priests to plutón called "victimarios" of all the Roman gods plutón was the most ruthless and feared, then the crow was a messenger of the beyond, perhaps invoked by that "old book, rare and of forgotten science", during the poem was speaks of seraphim that perfumed the room, with censers, according to the Christian angelology the seraphim have the highest ranks in the celestial hierarchy, since they are not made in image and Likeness of God, rather they are part or essence

A crow sneaks into the room of a lonely student on a cold December night, posing elegant and majestic and repeating the word nevermore (never again) to the questions addressed by the young man, who observes him inquisitively waiting for the black winged figure clarify its uncertainties. In the first part of the poem, the poet, in his sleep, hears a knock on the door of his room. Believing to know who he is, aloud he makes it notice in a subtle way. The cold and shadows that create the light that gives off the fireplace, causes a lugubrious atmosphere of reds and blacks. The poet doubts if it is Leonora, his dead