An Analysis Of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

The Raven” is the best known poem of Edgar Allan Poe, a major figure in American literature. The poem features a mysterious bird who speaks but one word, in ominous tones, to a grief-stricken young man mourning the death of his young lady love. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, to professional actors Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins and David Poe, Jr., members of a repertory company in Boston, Massachusetts. Orphaned by age three, Poe was placed into the care of John and Fanny Allan, who baptized him Edgar Allan Poe, but never legally adopted him. John Allan, a prosperous exporter from Richmond, Virginia, provided exemplary schooling for his foster son, including five years in England. Poe had left home and enlisted in the army and was later dismissed after a year. This is when he published two of his books that didn't receive a lot of attention at the time.The Southern Literary Messenger. This was the first of several literary journals Poe would oversee during the next decade; his critical and editorial essays of these years led him to prominence as a leading man of letters in America.
The narrator has grief and sorrow each night reminding him of his loss by an unwelcome visitor. The physical setting of the poem is it's a dark December night in a library like room and has repeated references to classical statuary. The main themes in the raven are tragic death of a beautiful woman at a young age, and the grief of the bereft young man whose affection for his lost love transcends the physical boundaries of death and