Is The Raven Real Or Imaginary?
I would like to start by introducing the question, Is the raven real or imaginary? Well, The Raven is a bird that accoding to it's history they are said to be of bad luck, and they we're the god's messengers in the mortal world. Talking about this topic of the Raven, it depends, because birds can't really talk, there are little things that make the story imaginary but it could really be that it was created by his imagination. No bird can converse with any humans in a reasonable way, obviously birds can be tamed to say a few words but not really in a significant way. So this actually creates a very confusing state, because according to the text, he was actually feeling that the Raven had a message; Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed
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Some curious facts about this story is that while Edgar Allan was writing this poem, his wife was very very ill, at the point that she could died in any moment. She was actually suffering from tuberculosis. At this point, many of us know that Edgar married his cousin Virginia, but he really did loved her in a way we don't know nowadays. Edgar's mother, foster mother and also his brother had this disease that his wife had so he knew where it was going to lead her, to the death. So, it is believed that this poem was actually about a man, losing a lot of loved ones and was expecting to lose another one. In those times, when Edgar wrote that story ‘'The Raven'' he was very poor. He was living in a very difficult time of his life and was struggling a lot to even feed his family. He didn't receive that much amount of money for this story because of publication. Even though Edgar was really famous and everyone wanted to make deals and offers to him to make his story and poems famous or knowable, he was still poor. In this poem, he describes also, the life he had, that he had not even smile since the lost of Lenore. That a Raven could get him to smile even a little bit, because he thought it was some ocult message that the raven carried trying to tell him that he was going to re encounter with Lenore in
Some curious facts about this story is that while Edgar Allan was writing this poem, his wife was very very ill, at the point that she could died in any moment. She was actually suffering from tuberculosis. At this point, many of us know that Edgar married his cousin Virginia, but he really did loved her in a way we don't know nowadays. Edgar's mother, foster mother and also his brother had this disease that his wife had so he knew where it was going to lead her, to the death. So, it is believed that this poem was actually about a man, losing a lot of loved ones and was expecting to lose another one. In those times, when Edgar wrote that story ‘'The Raven'' he was very poor. He was living in a very difficult time of his life and was struggling a lot to even feed his family. He didn't receive that much amount of money for this story because of publication. Even though Edgar was really famous and everyone wanted to make deals and offers to him to make his story and poems famous or knowable, he was still poor. In this poem, he describes also, the life he had, that he had not even smile since the lost of Lenore. That a Raven could get him to smile even a little bit, because he thought it was some ocult message that the raven carried trying to tell him that he was going to re encounter with Lenore in