the raven analysis
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Analysis from the theme and content point of view about The Raven by Edgar Allan PoeTRANSCRIPT
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The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
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Themes
Love: He loves a woman named Lenore. The only thing he wants is to be back with her. Natural World:
• He imagines natural forces around him.
• Dark night.• The sound of the wind.• The bird.
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Supernatural: • Afterlife.• Existence of God.• The narrators is talking to a
bird.
Themes
Madness: the narrator sounds as if he has had a rough life. He talks with a bird.
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Symbolism
Lenore: she is the main focus of the speaker's thoughts. She represents beauty, truth, hope, it's and idealized love.
The Raven: represents darkness, death, the bearer of ill. It is a magical sign of ill omen.
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Symbolism
Nepenthe: Ancient drug used to remove pain or suffering.
Midnight:
December:
Darkest part of the night. Witching time.
Winter. Symbol of death. Nothing lives in winter.
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Norse mythology
God Odin had two ravens:
• Hugin (thought)
• Munin (memory)
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Greek mythology
'A bust of Pallas'
Pallas Athena:Greek Godess of wisdom.
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Roman mythology
Pluto: Roman God of underworld.
Shore: shore of the underworld.
Night: symbol of death.
'Nights Plutonian shore'
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Biblical References
‘is there balm in Gilead?'
Jeremiah 8:22
Balm: medical resin. Represents hope, peace, the end of pain. The narrator needs to be heal from the lost of Leonor
Kind of salvation
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Biblical References
'Aideen'
Reference to the Garden of Eden
Use the word to ask if Lenor was accepted in paradise.
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Alliteration
‘while I pondered weak and weary‘
‘surcease of sorrow - sorrow‘
‘silken sad uncertain‘
‘Doubting, dreaming dreams‘
‘never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting'