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    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
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    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

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    A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781535839167
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      A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven - Gale

      7

      The Raven

      Edgar Allan Poe

      1845

      Introduction

      The Raven was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845, and received popular and critical praise. Sources of The Raven have been suggested, such as Lady Geraldine’s Courtship by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, and two poems, To Allegra Florence and Isadore by Thomas Holly Chivers. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Raven has become one of America’s most famous poems, partly as a result, of its easily remembered refrain, Nevermore. The speaker, a man who pines for his deceased love, Lenore, has been visited by a talking bird who knows only the word, Nevermore. The narrator feels so grieved over the loss of his love that he allows his imagination to transform the bird into a prophet bringing news that the lovers will Nevermore be reunited, not even in heaven. In The Philosophy of Composition, Poe’s own essay about The Raven, he describes the poem as one that reveals the human penchant for self-torture as evidenced by the speaker’s tendency to weigh himself down with grief.

      In the essay Poe also discusses his method of composing The Raven. He claims to have given much thought to his selection of the refrain, recognizing in it the pivot upon which the whole structure might turn. His selection of the word Nevermore came after considering his need for a single, easily remembered word that would allow him to vary the meaning of the lines leading up to it. The poem uses this refrain, or variations of it, as the closing word for each stanza. The stanzas become increasingly dramatic as the speaker makes observations or asks questions that reveal his growing tension and diminishing reason. The narrator begins with innocent and amusing remarks that build in a steady crescendo to intense expressions of grief, all of which conclude with Nevermore or one of its

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