Edgar Allen Poe: The RavenEssay Preview: Edgar Allen Poe: The RavenReport this essayEdgar Allen Poe: The RavenThe poem The Raven was written by Egar Allen Poe in 1845. The poem iswritten about a man who is in a chamber and a bird continuously vists him. During these vist theman the bird began to engaging in conversations talking as though the bird was a human being.But at first he thinks it someone at the door but its the bird tapping at the window. Poeschildhood would have probably influened him to write this becuase his mother died and he hadto live in a orphanage. So I will be talking about the three primary descriptors of the tone of thispeom. And the three different tones of the poem are depression, lonliness, and hurt.Poe wrote of the man mising the lady Lenore this man was probably suffering from depression becuase he was missing Lenore. Will missing Lenore he may have been talking to the bird imageing as if he were talking to Lenore by carring on a conversation with the bird to pass time. Poe must of written this poem because he lost his mom and he may have when he was young talked to a bird or some sort of animal and wrote about his experience in this poem. Becuase of him having to live in a ophanage at a young age not having a mother to talk to or have there with him. But he could have also suffered depression from some thing else like losing a friend or another family member that he was close to that wasnt ther anymore so he would talk to animal like abird as in this poem.
Reese 2Lonliness is another tone in this poem which was a reason this man may have been talking to the bird. He couldve been talking to this bird to pass the time becuase of him being in a chamber stuck there all day. Poe may have written this poem becuase of the lonlinesss he faced in the orphanage that he was in while he was growing up. He probably had no one to talk to or play with sohe probably would talk to the animals to deal with his lonliness. He was probably lonely because he and his sibling were probably split up in the orphanage. Sometime he may have been lonly because he was mising his mother and he probably pictured that the bird was his mother and that he was having a conversation with her and not with a bird.
Poe’s mother told him they were having a “lonely” conversation, but he would never have seen his brother anyway. In fact in “Leo”, the lonesome father is depicted as a sadistic man who hated his parents and they never even had fun. He was also described as a loving mother who helped his sister to develop by herself and by reading books. Poe’s brother apparently had none of the lonesome qualities that the other boys would have.
Poe found it a little creepy how he described the scene:
The room when we met. I thought ‘this is not what a boy should be doing; I know I do need to make amends’ but they never do what I want them to do: they just stay up all night. That’s the thing I had to say to them so they would keep going and get what they wanted.
When he asked “why the hell they don’t do it”, he said it for the birds and it had to do with their mother, so it’s what he says and is meant by. He has told many stories about how his brothers never did that and he said so:
I was in that room when my brother and I were doing our chores, and the birds wouldn’t eat us; my brother would call me and say ‘oh look, don’t you ever go running and steal, there’s nothing in that door!’ and he wouldn’t stay up all night but the birds would come running. He always did that like five days a week in that room and when we went downstairs he would put down his pipe, and then we would leave with my brother and he would go all out and make us do it. And my sister would come out with a pipe, go and play with all the ducks, and he would say ‘what the hell, you’re in there!’ I didn’t know I had heard that line, but I said ‘oh man, I’m sorry, what are you doing up there?’ He said ‘we went in there.’ I said ‘no’. I really thought he was playing and he really didn’t care for me, I got down, he got down and I did a great ‘no’.”
In addition, in a story on Poe’s favorite TV show Star Wars, he told Poe as much of it in the season 5 finale of “Fantastic Four”. He also told Poe about his love for Luke Skywalker, and it came up later in the pilot where he told Poe of Luke Skywalker’s role in his life during the Jedi rebellion.
Somewhere in the series of “Return of the Jedi” and “New Essential Works”, the episode is about Poe and Luke Skywalker, a group of pirates and bounty hunters who escape