... horror, it is a poem of haunting poetic beauty, "Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"(379). This type of tone is found allover the poem as beautiful as the words might seem the paint a gloomy picture in ... dreary, dark place where a man is trying to find hope and possible closure through the symbolism of a mystical bird, which enters his home and perches itself on a bust of the goddess of wisdom named Pallas. The raven appears as a metaphorical symbol representative of the memories of the narrat...

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• Grade Level: High School