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Symbolism In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

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“The Raven”, by Edgar Allen Poe, uses a lot of dark symbolism. The Raven is a story about a man, whose lover has recently died sending the man into depression and verging on madness. When a raven lands of a bust over his bedroom door, the man asks the raven questions to which the even answers with only “Nevermore” send the man farther down the tunnel of madness. First, the story takes place in December. December is the darkest month of the year and also is the month Poe’s mom died. There is no doubt that Poe used this month because of its dark nature and its personal relation to Poe. Next, the narrator said that, after the Raven said “Nevermore” to many times, the Raven must have come from “Night’s Plutonian Shore”. Pluto is the roman god of
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