Edgar Allan Poe “From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore-For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” This quote is from “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is an author who wrote stories and poems in the 1800’s. In most of Poe’s stories the narrator wants to solve a problem, but then they go about it wrong and people end up dying, and the the antagonist would almost always get caught. In Poe’s short stories, the theme think before you act is shown through character, plot, and conflict. In Poe’s story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the plot shows that if you don’t think before you act bad things will happen. In the story, the servant doesn’t like his Master’s eye and wants to kill him because of it. After planning what he is about to do, he sneaks into his Master’s room at night while he is asleep and kills him. The police come and investigate because the neighbors reported a shriek in the night. The servant ends up getting caught. “To think that there I was opening the door, little by little and he …show more content…
In “The Raven,” the narrator let the raven into his chamber, and now because he did that it will not leave. “In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.” A raven flew into the narrator’s chamber. It’s a depressing tone because he let the grief in so easily without even putting up a fight to keep out. “Till I scarcely more than muttered, ‘Other friends have flown before-on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’ Then the bird said ‘Nevermore.’” The narrator is saying that the grief will leave soon, but then the grief will stay, never leaving. This is a negative tone because he is hoping the bird will leave, but now that it is in there it’s not leaving, making him angry. Once again if you don’t think before you act, nothing will seem to be going