Edgar Allan Poe Influences

Edgar Allan Poe was outstanding writer of American romanticism born on January 19, 1809. Many if not all of its stories are still recognized and reproduced around the world, thanks to its so characteristic way of writing. Most people like his dark and peculiar way of writing that was probable developed by all the tragic events that surrounded his life. Poe was a really famous writer of romanticism but his texts trespassed up to the gothic era. Many say that the presence of so many deaths in his life helped him to give that gloomy twist in his stories, others say that the characteristics of his plots are influenced by the romanticism of the era in which he developed. Most of the famous works of Edgar Allan Poe are still reproduce and read in

We can start with the first description on line 1, "Once upon a midnight dreary" that tell us the arriving of the raven was at late night. In line 2, "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" the narrator give us a clue where he could be, with this information we assume he is in his room of a place at his home where he reads. "I remember it was in the bleak December" on line 7 and the text on line 1 can confirm us the mood of the poem; gloomy. Then across the text another of the most important characteristics of the texts are the bust of Pallas above the narrator's chamber door, that should have a deep effect on the text for it to be mentioned. Poe doesn't necessary says how exactly this room is, but with the description we can imagine it being a library, shelves piled high with musty old books and study papers, a desk full of texts. Not describing the room completely and just give us clues in the text to help us intuit what the place and environment could be like where the narrator is. This setting prepares us for another very important element in the history of Poe: the

The repetition of the name Lenore from the narrator show us the pain that still harassed him for the lost of his beloved Lenore. Mention repeatedly chamber door does not transmitted as it hinders him that the Raven has come to invade his house and annoy him, when the only thing he wants is to get rid of all the pain he feels. The response of the Raven to all the questions could also work as a secret message to us readers telling us about how the narrator was almost dying for the lost of Lenore and the not knowing what was going to happen was killing him. The Raven sitting on the bust of Pallas could also mean that the Raven was wise or at least he liked to act as he was, because Pallas was the greek goddess of wisdom. How the narrator reacted with the raven sitting on the bust of Pallas could mean that the bust had something related with Lenore, either it was of her possession or the author wanted to show how the bust remember the narrator of her because of her