Raven Roberson Stephanie Tschetter English Comp II 15 March 2018 The Raven The poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is a dark, loving, twisty, and beautiful piece. The author uses many adjectives along with telling a story in his work. Poe had more poems he created, but “The Raven” is a poem well known by many. This piece is not just sad and glum, there is beauty in every seemingly dark word. Famous for the word “nevermore”, the poem is the tale of a night of thinking and tells tales of love as well as fear of past and present. In the first stanza of the poem, Poe talks about the middle of the night. It is a dull and cheerless night. The person in the poem is thinking while fragile and fatigued. It is like a night where you just cannot fall asleep. You lay there exhausted and you’re tired, but you don’t know how to calm down. He or she is thinking of a forgotten wisdom or experience. They were almost asleep when all of a sudden there was something hitting, grazing at the chamber door. This is where the person is jolted awake after slowly drifting off into sleep. …show more content…
Each stanza has six lines. Almost every stanza has a hyphenation in it somewhere. Many of the words in the poem rhyme and flow together perfectly. Towards the end of the piece, the word "Nevermore" is mentioned many times. Repetition is used frequently while reading through. Just the way that the poem is written, it is felt that maybe this is just another love story. Words used throughout the poem are some that most readers or listeners would have to look up to better understand. Perhaps to another person reading the poem thinks each word giving description is meant to be dark and have no life to it? This poem will never have a certain way of being interpreted. It is only about what each reader or listener thinks after going over it. Edgar Allen Poe was an amazing person in may people's opinions. This poem is just another piece of evidence to