Meaning Behind The Raven

The Meaning Behind the Raven Imagine you’re reading, almost sleeping, one late night in December when you hear a “... gently rapping, rapping at [your] chamber door,” (4) as you go to check the front door apologizing to your late night “visitor” for not hearing it sooner, you open your front door to a pit of darkness, to silents, to no one. Confused, you blame the wind and open your window to find a bird, a crow, flying in and sitting on a statue that’s standing upon your bedroom. You begin to talk to the crow not thinking it’ll reply, but upon your final word it replies “Nevermore.” You begin to go crazy and continuing to ask it questions, and it never says more, never says less than “nevermore.” This just happened to a man in Edgar Allen
Soon he is accompanied by a bird, a crow. He begins to think the unthinkable, things no human may think. What could he be thinking? Silents breaks as the “only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”” (28) making Poe’s confused and slightly anxious character whispers, “and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”” (29) Questioning himself, did I say that? Was the crow Lenore? Was she sent to send him a
What the crow symbolizes (more than just death), written by Amanda Monteiro, crows are “ominous omen of death because it is the harbinger that guides souls from the realm of the living into the afterlife. Crow[s have] a powerful knowledge of the changes of life and death and the changes in the cycles of life. So when a crow appears, it can be a warning ...” (Monteiro), warning you of death, maybe not of you but others. Ravens have been seen in several movies as well just before a character passes including movies like: The Crow, directed by Alex Proyas, released in May 1994, where Brandon Lee, the star in the movie, was shot on set by what was suppose to be a prop gun, and the movie itself was called, The Crow, oh the irony. Charles Mudede, author of We See Death When We See Crows, stated he went to visit Brandon Lee and Bruce Lee’s tombstone, which stood beside each other, and he said he saw the cemetery “filled with hundreds of crows” walking across the tombstones even “saw a crow on a cross” just watching, staring, but why at the cemetery? Why do they watch? Is it because ravens watch where the dead sleep. Where the gerif morne. And where those go to let go of the loved ones they