The Raven

By Edgar Allan Poe

First published in 1845, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is a narrative poem of a young man who is bereaved by the death of the woman he loved. He compulsorily constructs self-destructive meaning around a raven’s repetition of the word 'Nevermore', until he finally despairs of being reunited with his beloved Lenore in another world.
Just because of the nightmarish effect, the poem cannot be called an elegy. In fact, "The Raven" is a ballad of eighteen six-line stanzas with decidedly emphatic meter and rhymes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E-BOOKARAMA
• Release date: Jan 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9788829588602

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.