The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is a fabulous poem that is looked at by numerous students each year. This poem is a dark poem that has a sad tone to it. A man is “nearly napping”(l. 3) in his chamber when he hears a knock on his door. Instantly he believes it possibly could be his dead wife, which somehow came back from the dead. However, when he opens the door he only sees is “Darkness” (l. 24). Then “a tapping” (l. 32) at …showed first 85 words of 1112 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1112 total…Many different students year in and year out study him and this poem. Not only is this poem very intriguing in its contents, but also it is quite unique in its structure. It is very rare that a poem has lines longer than ten syllables, but every line throughout this poem has more than ten syllables. Also this is a very lengthy poem; it is nearly 110 lines long. Very few poets are talented enough to carry a rhyme scheme for that long of a poem.
