Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe

Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe

Introduction

Poe was born in Boston, he was the son of Elizabeth Poe and David, the mother of Poe was died because of tuberculosis, and his father left the family in the year 1810. In Richmond, Frances and John taken Poe. Poe attended University of Virginia for a brief passage of time, and later he withdrew due to lack of money. Poe got enlisted in the U.S army, but later he got discharged from the army as he did not attend any classes of military

Themes of Poe's Work

In the Edgar Allan Poe's work, the three main themes of poems and short stories are horrific gore, insanity and death. These major themes reflect the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Large number of his poems was related to how he lost his wife. He wrote about the pain and hope of returning with her one day. His very famous poems include “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”. The major theme in these two poems is horror (Poe, 2003). The recurring themes in his life were personal tragedy, so this was the main reason that why Poe embraced this in his poetry. In his poem, “The Raven”, the main theme is of endless devotion. In this poem, he experiences a disagreement between remember and/or forget. By emphasizing on loss; he gets much more pleasure. Poe assumes that the term “nevermore” id the only stock and store of raven, and, still Poe continues to ask many questions, understanding what the answer would be. Then, his questions are deliberately self-deprecating and after that provoke his feelings of loss.

It is left unclear by Poe that Raven really knows what it is stating or if it actually aims to cause a response in the narrator of poem. The narrator begins his journey as weary and weak, and then turns out to be grief-stricken and regretful, earlier than going into anger and, at last, into madness (Poe, 1846).

The favorite theme of Poe is followed in the "Annabel Lee": the demise of a pretty lady, which Poe has stated as the most poetical matter in the world. By Poe, like many other women in different forms of work, she has engulfed and married young with illness. This poem emphasizes on an ideal love story, which is strangely strong. In actual, the action of narrator shows that he not just loves Annabel Lee; however he adores her, anything that he might only do after her death. The narrator acknowledges this fact that Annabel Lee and he were both kids when they fell in love; however his description those angles killed her is actually very childish, recommending that he has not become mature since then. This recurrence by him suggests that he is striving to rationalize his personal disproportionate feelings of loss. nothing like "The Raven", in which the narrator considers that he would "nevermore" be joined up with his love, "Annabel Lee" states that the two will be come together again, as not ...