'The Raven"

 

 

  The poem “The Raven” is recognized as Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous and well known piece of work, originally written in 1845. The summary of "The Raven" is about an older man, who is grieving over the  loss of his wife Lenore. The main character  soon becomes in contact with a raven that he begins to talk to at his bedroom window. Throughout the entire peom, the raven only says one phrase to the main character "Nevermore". This was a refrain added by the author which created a dark theme for the twisted plot of the story. As the main character tries to undterstand the raven, the more of his own sanity he looses. The key symbols I discovered in the poem was Lenore and  the raven. The most important symbol in the poem is the raven, and the author makes this very clear by naming it as the title of the poem. Every time the raven appeared, it brought negative or bad news for the main character. The raven is also the image that sticks the most in the audiences head, due to the authors great display of imagery and symbolism. 

 

                                                                    "Annabel Lee"

   The poem "Annabel Lee" was sadly Poe's last peom written in 1849 right before he died, and wasn't published till  months after his death. Edgar Allan Poe made it clear to his audience that the speaker of this poem is a boy who is madly in love with Annabel. As the plot develops and time goes by, Annabel gets very sick and the boy is now a man looking for her. Annabel's lover tries to locate her many times to find where she is, but her father would never share the secret where she is being held in a tomb. Even when Annabel dies, her father wouldn’t give in and tell the man where she was buried. Like most of Poe’s work this leaves the main character in tragic despair throughout the poem. The speaker never stops loving Annabel and even mentions when he dreams at night, that he is sleeping next to Annabel’s dead body.