Edgar Allan Poe

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated work, among the most popular American poems ever written. This volume reprints all 26 of Doré's detailed, masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of the poem. Relevant lines from the poem are printed on facing pages and the complete text is also included. Admirers of Doré will find ample evidence here of his characteristic ability to capture the mood and meaning of a work of literature in striking imagery; lovers of The Raven will delight in seeing its mournful musing on love and loss given dramatic pictorial form. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The Raven

Chloé

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...Quoth the Raven, ""Nevermore."" ""The Raven"" is a classic narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word ""Nevermore."" The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, ""The Philosophy of Composition."" The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Dickens.

Geoffrey Froggatt

In The Raven, the symbolism is obvious. Poe himself meant the Raven to symbolize mournful, never-ending remembrance. Our narrator's sorrow for his lost love Lenore is the driving force behind his conversation with the Raven. The poem explores how grief can overcome a person's ability to live in the present and engage with society. Over the course of the poem, the speaker's inability to forget his lost love drives him to despair and madness. Reading this when I was young wasn’t as impactful as it is now. The narrator tries to get away from despair and human mortality, trying to pass away into a kind of forgetfulness. The poem shows many different stages of grief and how cyclical it is. Having gone through a lot of grieving myself through these past few years, I felt a connection with this poem and Poe himself in a way I never had before, which made this poem all the more impactful. I’m determined to read more poetry, not only to diversify my own reading, but also to connect with writers in a different way, in a way I had closed myself off to before. Poe did an excellent job at using his own grief to craft a poem with such a gloomy atmosphere. I finally understand why so many people connect with his work even all these years later.

melanie 

raia

Mahdis Riazikhah

Beatriz Aguiar

Amina Madadi (ⴰⵎⵉⵏⴰ)

Here I opened wide the door..
Darkness there, and nothing more..
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before..

Nada Ghazi

"Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never—nevermore'."

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Edgar Allan Poe, the sweetest, yet the most killing mortal.

The Raven FULLY ILLUSTRATED Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Dore "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore." The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, "The Philosophy of Composition." The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout."

Leonie

Kate Gravelle

I’ve always enjoyed the rhythm of this poem.

Katie Holem

Will write a review when I finish reading the Completed Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Анастасия Розова

*Read for class.

I'm not a big fan of poetry, but this poem I very much enjoyed! Especially after the language Poe used in his the Fall of the House of Usher, which was confusing, this one was a delight. I actually had fun (maybe a weird term for such a dark poem) reading it.

Mica

Tala 

salem

and other poems

The raven

Charlotte S L 

Emmanuel Rodas

Hi <3 he/him

Kaitlyn Kuehn 

Sheena

Reymarck Esaguirre

Undoubtedly the most famous verse written by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven is also one of the most famous poems in the world. Though it did not bring him much in the way of money, this piece was, as per the author's statements, composed quite methodically, with an aim to appeal to the masses. And appeal it did, making Poe an overnight sensation, a household name almost the moment it began to circulate. Full of brooding guilt, moody atmosphere and love lost, The Raven depicts Poe's overwrought narrator and that most infamous of all fowls, the titular croaking Raven.

The Raven

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