The Raven And Eldorado Research Paper

Edgar Allen Poe has wrote many poems two are “The Raven” and “Eldorado” two poems wrote in the 19th century. Each with a theme that means lots of things to different people and in many ways they are different and in some they are the same. These poems have different speakers but have the same author who just wants to share his creativity and sorrow with the world. One poem talks about losing a loved one while the other talks about searching for your whole life to find something that you can’t find until you die. They both have the same sound devices of alliteration, Consonance, and assonance.

To begin, The poem “The Raven” was published on January 29 1845 and four years later he wrote “Eldorado” on April 21 1849 although they are on different days they are both in the 19th century. They were both made in different months and different years but they both have powerful themes. In “The Raven” there is the lover of lenore and in “Eldorado” it is a storyteller telling of the knight who searched for eldorado in the text it says “Gaily bedight, /A gallant knight,/In sunshine and in shadow,/Had journeyed long,/Singing a song,/In search of Eldorado.” In “The
In the poem it says “From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—” this is saying that he is grieving lenore that she had died recently. In the “Eldorado” the theme is life after death such as heaven and it will be greater than anything in this world. In the poem it says “Over the/Mountains/ Of the Moon,/Down the Valley of the/Shadow,/Ride, boldly ride,"/The shade replied-/"If you seek for Eldorado!” this is saying you must die before you will see Eldorado. The subject in both are different in “The Raven” the subject is Poe’s wife virginia that had died and in “Eldorado” the subject is that Poe had searched his entire life to find what he was looking for and he can’t find it before he