The Raven: Critical Analysis Of Symbolism In It
Edgar Allan Poe is a poet and critic of literature, born in America in 1809 and was famous for his romantic writings that may contain a lot of imagination, and in that period of time the writers began to try to know the relationship between truth and fiction by various means, written poems and books show their writers psych. Some of the most famous poems written by the poet Edgar were ‘The Raven’ poem, a romantic poem that tells the story of a raven visit a person who has fallen deep in love, where he hears something knocking the door but finds no one, and then a raven enters through the window and that raven starts talking to the person in the poem about his love for his mistress Lenore.
The bird symbolizes the poet’s hopes and dreams because the poet says that his hopes and dreams have flown away from him, and thus both birds and hopes will ‘fly away’. The crow represents the poet’s hopes for the return of his lover Linore, indicating that these hopes will move away as the Raven will do because he knows well that his lover Linor has no hope of returning to him, all these ideas come from his head and the sadness that dwells inside him.
And it is very likely that the bird is imaginary and is in the imagination of the poet only, especially as the poet has said that he is about to sleep ‘nearly napping’, the mental state of the poet make him see and feel things are not necessarily true or realistic, where there is a big difference between what we see when we are fully awake, and what we see when we are asleep or about to sleep.
As we see in the poem that the poet begins to speak with the bird and the bird responds to him saying ‘nevermore’ and this is an imaginary thing, and very likely that all of this is only in the head of the poet. It appears in the poem in many ways and many shows that the bird is fictional and not realistic as the poet says: ‘other friends have flown before on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
After reading the poem and clarifying the above evidence, it is now safe to say that the bird ‘the raven’ is imaginary and not real, and the whole thing may be a terrible dream that was experienced by the poet.
