Edgar Allan Poe's Poem, The Raven
This month we were reading the extraordinary poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.The poem was written on January 29, 1845.Edgar Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, he was the second child of the English actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.He had an older brother William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister Rosalie Poe. His father abandoned their family in 1810, and his mother died a year later from pulmonary tuberculosis. Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, who lived in Richmond, Virginia. The Allens were his foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", but they never formally adopted him.The family sailed to Britain in 1815, and Poe attended the grammar school for a short period of time in Irvine, Scotland before rejoining the family in London in 1816. He stayed at a boarding school in
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Chelsea until summer 1817. Poe moved with the Allans back to Richmond; John Allan's uncle died, leaving Allan several acres of real estate. The inheritance was estimated at $750,000. Sadly he died On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore.He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849 at 5:00 in the morning. Why he died was and still is a mystery. The poem the raven was written because he was lamentations the death of his wife and the raven represents Pluto the Roman god of death.
Did you know that every stanzas rime scheme was A-B-C-B-B-B the poem 'The
Raven' has 18 stanzas with 6 lines each (108 lines total), and approximately 1100 words.The main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" are undying faithfulness, loss and the grief that cannot be rejected.The poem's narrator, is mourning the death of his lover, Lenore.
Metaphor is used multiple times throughout the poem to personify the raven,when the raven first appears, the narrator says he sat "with mien of lord or lady," which automatically lets the reader know that there is something unique about this bird.One simile in the poem is "Suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping".That is a simile using the word "as" to compare tapping and gentle rapping. personification is used when he describes his soul floating on the floor, and shall be lifted nevermore. He became frightened by the raven tapping at his chamber door and described his fear like he soul escaping his body. In the Raven the hyperbole is when he procedes to scare himself by almost having a conversation with himself.Onomatopoeic words such as tapping and rapping are used to build up the tension felt by the protagonist in Poe's
poem.
Chelsea until summer 1817. Poe moved with the Allans back to Richmond; John Allan's uncle died, leaving Allan several acres of real estate. The inheritance was estimated at $750,000. Sadly he died On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore.He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849 at 5:00 in the morning. Why he died was and still is a mystery. The poem the raven was written because he was lamentations the death of his wife and the raven represents Pluto the Roman god of death.
Did you know that every stanzas rime scheme was A-B-C-B-B-B the poem 'The
Raven' has 18 stanzas with 6 lines each (108 lines total), and approximately 1100 words.The main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" are undying faithfulness, loss and the grief that cannot be rejected.The poem's narrator, is mourning the death of his lover, Lenore.
Metaphor is used multiple times throughout the poem to personify the raven,when the raven first appears, the narrator says he sat "with mien of lord or lady," which automatically lets the reader know that there is something unique about this bird.One simile in the poem is "Suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping".That is a simile using the word "as" to compare tapping and gentle rapping. personification is used when he describes his soul floating on the floor, and shall be lifted nevermore. He became frightened by the raven tapping at his chamber door and described his fear like he soul escaping his body. In the Raven the hyperbole is when he procedes to scare himself by almost having a conversation with himself.Onomatopoeic words such as tapping and rapping are used to build up the tension felt by the protagonist in Poe's
poem.