analysis of The Raven

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I need the analysis of The Raven, please!

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2002

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I need the analysis of The Raven, please

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2002

Read Poe's own description at www.eapoe.org under essays "The Philosophy of Composition". Beware though. Poe loves to joke with people. Some of his statements are possibly disingenuous. As to the theme though it is still quite revealing. The raven as symbol("emblem")of "a mournful and never-ending remembrance". There is ingenious irony in the haunting way the narrator scares himself into a raging defeat in a monologue dialogue with the repetitive bird. While searching for hope he only gets the drear and monotonous "nevermore" which in itself contains the mindless message of loss and death that so oppresses him. The subtle drama of obsessive repetition as the mood and the meaning escalates into the fancy of actually talking with the intrusive oracle. "Life's Plutonian shore" is an apt phrase for the position from which the poet writes of his life, stuck on the boundary of loss(of the past and death in the future) searching for lost happiness or future hope.

-- Anonymous, May 30, 2002

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