Thursday, November 18, 2010

Analysis of The Raven

I know were supposed to do a literal analysis for every sentence but thats just to many. I'm going to analyze the whole poem. In the Poem The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe wrote about a young man trying to forget about a lost love when a raven comes to his house. The Raven only says the one word Nevermore. THe young man claims the Raven will leave him like everyone else. The Rave says Nevermore. Finally he succumbs and asks when he will be reunited with his love in heaven and the Raven says Nevermore. He goes nuts and the poem sort of ends. Poe used a ton of literary devices for the poem. Some oft he imagery was absolutely fantastic, his rhyming scheme was complex and rhythmic. He also had some allusion in his work. At the beginning the man in the poem is reading a book by another author to help him get over his lost love. So it was sort of a shout out from one author to another. The Raven seemed to be a symbol for a broken heart. When he says that it will never leave him it means he is going to be reminded for it the rest of his life when he thinks about the lost love. The figurative meaning has to do with heartbreak. Heartbreak happens to everyone, we will never completely forget it and ti will always be there. Sometimes it will drive us mad.

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