Compare And Contrast The Raven And Wayman
THE RAVEN
BY
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE RAVEN - SETTING
The chamber of a house at midnight.
Poe uses the word chamber rather than bedroom apparently because chamber has a dark and mysterious connotation. THE RAVEN - NARRATION
First-Person Narrator (Persona) A man who has lost his beloved, a woman named Lenore. He is depressed, lonely, and possibly mentally unstable as a result of his bereavement. THE RAVEN - SOURCE
INSPIRATION
OF
The raven in Charles Dickens' 1841 novel,
Barnaby Rudge, a historical novel about antiCatholic riots in London in 1780 in which a mentally retarded person (Barnaby) is falsely accused of participating. Barnaby owns a pet raven, Grip, which can speak. In the fifth chapter of the novel, Grip taps at a
BY
EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE RAVEN - SETTING
The chamber of a house at midnight.
Poe uses the word chamber rather than bedroom apparently because chamber has a dark and mysterious connotation. THE RAVEN - NARRATION
First-Person Narrator (Persona) A man who has lost his beloved, a woman named Lenore. He is depressed, lonely, and possibly mentally unstable as a result of his bereavement. THE RAVEN - SOURCE
INSPIRATION
OF
The raven in Charles Dickens' 1841 novel,
Barnaby Rudge, a historical novel about antiCatholic riots in London in 1780 in which a mentally retarded person (Barnaby) is falsely accused of participating. Barnaby owns a pet raven, Grip, which can speak. In the fifth chapter of the novel, Grip taps at a