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The Raven is a poem made by the great poet; Edgar Allan Poe. In this story we take part of a young scholar, sitting in his room deeply buried in studies about forgotten lore, when suddenly a raven disturbs his concentration. Our scholar is heart-broken and has lost his love of his life, a girl named Lenore, and is not sure whether or not he is going crazy or that this grim bird is trying to tell him something.

The Raven which is the headline of the story is together with the narrator, the main characters in the poem. This relationship and the tensions between these two figures, is what I will weight my analysis on. Furthermore I will interpret on the poem itself, and at last put into perspective by adding an aspect of references to the life of Edgar Allan Poe himself. At the end of the poem, the narrator realizes that forgetting Lenore is merely impossible, and that the memory of her (death + love) will continue “haunting” him throughout his life.

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