Literary Criticism Of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

"The Raven" one of Edgar Allan Poe 's most famous works. A poem written on 1845 summarizing the story gives us a pretty basic and straight forward set of events .The setting is Victorian and corresponding to the date it was written in. We have the narrator, who 's name we never get to know, who is at his house inside his room which he calls chamber due to the time period and author 's vocabulary, and he 's grieving. He 's grieving over the loss of the woman named Leonor, it sounds as if she was his wife or at the very least his lover but it 's never clearly stated. While our narrator mourns the death of Leonor he the peculiar things start to happen around the narrator, things that we can say "Oh, he 's just imagining it." But later something

Is it supposed to be a living thinking being in the story, or are we supposed to read between lines and realize that the narrator is not only imagining the bird talking to him, but descending deeper into madness due to the heartbreaking loss he suffered? Well at the end is impossible to get a definitive answer since everything can be interpreted in various different ways but at least we can recollect some evidence and facts and we could also throw in some assumptions if the conclusion makes sense at the end. Right, the question we will talk about: Is it the raven real, or is the author imagining the talking bird? Let 's find out with the text, about the author, and the nature of his stories to see if we get close to an answer, we can 't get a concrete answer as said before, but we 'll get close enough to

There is "The Mascara of the Red Death" and "The Black Cat". In the Red Death, death itself makes an appearance as a tangible being. Something obviously supernatural, then we have The Black cat, which is almost positive that the dead cat was meowing in order to catch the murderer, all these supernatural events indicate that a talking raven in Poe 's tales isn 't that far fetch, but there is also "The tell-tale heart" where the mind of the man was playing tricks on him, very vivid ones. With this in mind we can 't actually use this argument on as evidence since it brings us nowhere in the