Edgar Allan Poe used his writing and poerty to convey everything he was feeling. He used his words to reveal what he has been through as a child and adult. In 'the Raven,' it characterizes the speaker as a man who is all alone and in despair. A man who never had anybody and continued to live alone the 'darkness'. Edgar Allan Poe used the man to represent himself and to show how he felt all alone. Just as in 'the Raven' he symbolized Lenore as his late wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. In the poem the speaker constantly describes Lenore as someone he admired deeply and was in love with. Edgar Allan Poe created the man in the poem to show the way he felt. He used the man to express all of the things he was feeling after everything that had traumatically happend to him.
The author fears, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." This quote shows how Edgar Allan Poe was always dealing with so many obstacles he has had to face in life. On the point of, when the speaker says "Weak and Weary" it gives a new look on how Edgar Allan Poe saw himself as.
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In 'the Raven' Lenore is the narrator's dead lover. As it proves this in the poem by the multiple times he spoke of Lenore in sorrowing, admiring and loving words. Lenore represents the protagonists' wife and how she departed from her life; she died from tuberculosis and the quote that shows how Poe is mourning over his late wife, " But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, and the only word there spoken was the whispered word, 'Lenore!'." This confirms that Poe is acheing for his wife because the fatality of Virginia had made him lose his