Raven poem :)

One interesting thing I found about the raven poem , is how the bird / raven kept saying "never more" like why would he keep saying that? I doesn't explain but I found that interesting because that's all it said and that's what made the man even crazier. 

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"The Raven" Edgar Allen Poe

1) The Raven represents a supernatural being-devil.
2) Edgar Allen Poe married his cousin, who was 13 at the time, Virginia.
3) He used a raven to represent what he was writing because the raven is a common symbol of death in literature.
4) "Like a number of Poe's poems such as "Ulalume" and "Annabel Lee," "The Raven" refers to an agonized protagonist's memories of a deceased woman. Through poetry, Lenore's premature death is implicitly made aesthetic, and the narrator is unable to free himself of his reliance upon her memory. He asks the raven if there is "balm in Gilead" and therefore spiritual salvation, or if Lenore truly exists in the afterlife, but the raven confirms his worst suspicions by rejecting his supplications. The fear of death or of oblivion informs much of Poe's writing, and "The Raven" is one of his bleakest publications because it provides such a definitively negative answer. By contrast, when Poe uses the name Lenore in a similar situation in the poem "Lenore," the protagonistGuy de Vere concludes that he need not cry in his mourning because he is confident that he will meet Lenore in heaven.

Poe's choice of a raven as the bearer of ill news is appropriate for a number of reasons. Originally, Poe sought only a dumb beast that was capable of producing human-like sounds without understanding the words' meaning, and he claimed that earlier conceptions of "The Raven" included the use of a parrot. In this sense, the raven is important because it allows the narrator to be both the deliverer and interpreter of the sinister message, without the existence of a blatantly supernatural intervention. At the same time, the raven's black feather have traditionally been considered a magical sign of ill omen, and Poe may also be referring to Norse mythology, where the god Odin had two ravens named Hugin and Munin, which respectively meant "thought" and "memory." The narrator is a student and thus follows Hugin, but Munin continually interrupts his thoughts and in this case takes a physical form by landing on the bust of Pallas, which alludes to Athena, the Greek goddess of learning."

source : http://www.gradesaver.com/poes-poetry/study-guide/section8/

Why the raven?

When we watched the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, I asked myself, "Why did he use the raven in his poem? Among all of the birds that he could've chosen, why did he choose the raven? And so to find out, I looked it up and I found this information:

Poe's choice of a raven as the bearer of ill news is appropriate for a number of reasons. Originally, Poe sought only a dumb beast that was capable of producing human-like sounds without understanding the words' meaning, and he claimed that earlier conceptions of "The Raven" included the use of a parrot. In this sense, the raven is important because it allows the narrator to be both the deliverer and interpreter of the sinister message, without the existence of a blatantly supernatural intervention. At the same time, the raven's black feather have traditionally been considered a magical sign of ill omen, and Poe may also be referring to Norse mythology, where the god Odin had two ravens named Hugin and Munin, which respectively meant "thought" and "memory." The narrator is a student and thus follows Hugin, but Munin continually interrupts his thoughts and in this case takes a physical form by landing on the bust of Pallas, which alludes to Athena, the Greek goddess of learning.

Source: http://www.gradesaver.com/poes-poetry/study-guide/section8/

The Raven

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, `Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven. Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.  when the speaker says "night's plutonian shore" i thought he was talking about the planet pulto... but it reallys mean a roman god of the dead

"The Raven" by Allen Poe

 In the poem, the raven, by Allen Poe talks about a man who is haunted by a raven. But not very many people know the real reason of the poem. During Poe's time, a lot of his love ones in the past die by Tuberculosis. It haunted him like how it in the poem the raven haunted the man. He tried to forget about it at sometimes like the character trying to forget who was at the door. many people say behind the story was the loss of his younger wife, who was also his cousin. It wasn't true, because the time he publish The Raven he started to realize she had Tuberculosis. Back in the day many people were scare of the story of it. Today, it's not, but if you read it closely or find hints, you can know how scary it is. For example, the setting and how the poem is tell. In the setting, he quoted "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," it says that it's in midnight and in other parts it says its in December and dark. This shows that with the setting of how it's dark and midnight it makes it scary.