... of Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, Edgar A. Poe had quite a collection of works from his lesser-known stories to his most famous poem, "The Raven". This great man's life has been analyzed to death (no pun intended) to find key's to unlock ... theme of "The Raven" is simple: a speaking raven, which's repetitious, visits a man suffering the loss of his love, answers torture him to the point of insanity (Decoder, Internet). The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the death of Poe's wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, I...

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