The Raven Research Paper

Edgar Allan Poe's life was one engulfed in sorrow, abuse, neglect, and anger; at a young age Poe's parents would split with his alcoholic father leaving and Poe's mom being left to care for Poe and his siblings. The reason Poe's life is significant is because it influenced his writing, especially his poem "The Raven". In "The Raven" sorrow, depression, and greif is evoked all throughout the poem this is relating to Edgar's personal life; he lost his mother, adoptive mother, and wife at a young age. Weathered by his personal life Poe would turn to poetry to ease his pain and suffering, this is how "The Raven" was written. Influenced by the lose of loved ones, Poe would write "The Raven", you can infer this by the amount of times words relating to greif and sorrow are brought up in the poem. "The Raven" was based off a raven to inflict a mood on the reader because the raven symbolizes death and ill omens, which refers to the death of mainly his wife, but also the death of his mother and adoptive mother. An example of this would be this qoute from the poem, "....."Wretch,"I cried, "thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite—respite and

In the poem, Poe states, "Eagerly I wished the morrow;" this symbolizes Poe just wanting to forget the lose of his wife because it says he wished eagerly for the morrow which means he was wanting it to be the next and morrow means tomorrow. In the stanza sorrow, forgetting, and Lenore appears and the frequency of these themes and words shows what and how Poe was going through struggles and greif in his personal life which is reflected in this poem. Emotion is what to used in any type of writing to draw the attention of the reader which is what Poe did, but his emotion was raw and not put on for the poem his emotion was true and from the heart and