THE RAVEN

The Raven

The Raven

Edgar Allen Poe, author of "The Raven," played on the reader's emotions (Mankowitz, 1978). The Raven is a poem written during the Romantic Era. Romanticism doesn't mean that a literary work has to be about love. Paradoxically, "The Raven" is both "romantic" and from the "Romantic" period. Poe's poem is about a man's "lost love". The man's emotions causes him to become exotic (shouting like a maniac for the bird to take its leave) and finally to imagine all sorts of weird things (a raven that refuses to leave and speaks only one word; "Nevermore"). Poe ...