Edgar Allan Poe: Interpretation of his poem "The Raven" by Anja Frank

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2006 within the topic American stories - Literature, grade: 1,2, Ernst Moritz Arndt college of Greifswald (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), path: Proseminar: American Poetry, language: English, summary: the ability of literature is a brilliant one certainly. It absorbs us, transforms our surroundings, adjustments our mind set. For a second we will dwell one other existence, test varied possibilities and picture excellent worlds. particularly poems appear to contact us inside of our private soul. A poem can frequently say issues that may by no means be acknowledged in the other manner. It supplies us goose bumps and butterflies in our belly; it makes us cry, makes us chuckle, makes us suppose larger- makes us imagine. Poetry expresses not just love, or disgust, but additionally giddy elation, gentle bemusement, wild mind's eye and the other emotions we will be able to or can't think. through the years many authors have expressed their reviews, hopes and critics in magazines, in books full of pages and pages of poetry. however a few of them sincerely stand out with their existence and their paintings. a few of them are authors that made nice contributions to the area of literature and which are nonetheless unforgotten. one in every of them is Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe didn't basically have an exceptional impact at the improvement of horror and fable genres, he additionally stands (with Mary Shelley) for a brand new pressure in literary Romanticism, later known as Gothic. Poe is called the daddy of the yankee brief tale and the detective tale, yet moreover he wrote amazing items of poetry. (Magistrale 2001: xiii) Tony Magistrale writes in his e-book “Student better half to Edgar Allan Poe”: “Poe was once a kind of infrequent literary geniuses who not just worked effectively in a number of genres- poetry, fiction, the essay- but in addition went directly to give a contribution considerably to defining and exploring the fullest diversity of probabilities inherent in those genres.“ (Magistrale 2001: xii) one in every of his most famed poems that opened up throughout the international and bought translated into many languages is “The Raven”. This essay bargains a precis and an interpretation of “The Raven” and attempts to appreciate Poe’s personal research in “The Philosophy of Composition”. however, while examining or studying a poem it's continuously ecocnomic to examine the lifetime of the poet, too. a few of his biographical evidence could be the hyperlink to appreciate his method of writing. That’s why this essay additionally offers with Edgar Allan Poe’s lifestyles and the time he grew up.