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Poe's Imagination In Is The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

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Is the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous poem of the XIX century and has been always on the center of debate if the poem is real or imaginary. I've read it the poem several I times and it seems that the raven is real. I think that this is picture Of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination because if read Edgar Allan Poe's biography you will think that this mite influence Poe to write his poem. He maybe used this poem express his feels in that specific moment because he is passing through a lot at that moment that year his wife was passing through a lot of pain because she was suffering with tuberculosis and the year before in 1844 she was diagnosed with that illness and she is feeling very bad at moment in time. And he must have been very sad because this illness had killed his mother, his brother and his foster mother and he already knew what are the effects of tuberculosis. …show more content…

The he hears that there is a knocking in his chamber door and checks if there is some one but there is nobody their. Then he hears a knocking on his window and sees that a raven comes and is on the top of a bust of a Greek goddess. And his man starts to ask question to this raven question of Lenore and this man basic torture himself because he is asking questions of something he already knows the answer and the raven always response is "Nevermore". Is not an example of that is mentally ill doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to have a different result? Maybe the Raven is not bothering the narrator but the raven is completely brought on by himself. So in a way it's torturing him, but it's himself torturing the fact that Lenore is gone and he does not want to forget her but at the same remember

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