When Edgar Allen Poe was young he lost his mom and dad before he started to write the poems that he made, and the book he wrote talks about how much a loss can affect a person. Later in his life, he lost his wife, so he didn't have a family later in his life so it eventually made him a more sad person. "The Raven" is drawn to Poe's life because he lived a dark life and had nobody at his side and help him through things since he lost his dad and mom.``Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"
He wrote the raven because he went through sad times when he was a young kid. They all reflected his future because he kept thinking about people that he eventually lost
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But, whenever he saw a raven in his room it reminded him of the hard times he went through when his mom and dad died then his wife died when he got older. Before the raven came in he heard a noise outside of his door and it made him think about the noises he used to hear whenever his mom and dad were alive because it sounded like a person knocking on the door. "To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining. On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp–light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp–light gloated o'er''. Whenever the raven was in his room it made him much more sad because it made him think about the people that died in his life. "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my