The poem is about the futility of looking for signs in nature. The guy is grieving, his partner died. He clings to anything that might hint to a greater power to the universe. He tries to get some insight from the raven in the same way you'll shake an 8 ball if you don't like the answer, and keep shaking until it tells you something new. The raven is just a raven, squawking it's name, and the man grows more and more frustrated not because he dislikes the raven's answers but because he refuses to accept a chaotic universe, one without symbols or signs.
Look the story might be real...Just a coincidence, birds can be very annoying and ravens can copy what they hear so it's not creepy at all tbh.And if it's a poem based on fiction and just sending a message the massage is very good
that's a very particular interpretation. I feel like, while clearly the speaker is unstable, there is no objective message in the poem that there's absolutely nothing paranormal going on. ravens don't speak, after all, name or any other word. so we could just as well interpret the raven as a sign from a greater power telling him that lenore is gone and he should deal with that loss or live in grief forever
@toorf hi I’m a Christian and I’m not coming here to bash you. I understand where your coming from and yes God is a person that we go to for everything. We don’t just go to him because our comfort it’s more than that. I human life you can do everything on your own you always need a little help or it doesn’t even have to be that. God is our creator and we owe it to him to give him the glory and share his word. There is a importance behind living for him and not yourself. Yeah you can go to heaven who knows not all Christians go to heaven.
I am watching this for fun. I love Edgar Allan Poe and his gothic and creepy stories. I couldn't quite understand the Raven as it was filled with Old English language, but this video helped me understand how a simple poem can have thousands of different interpretations. I love writing, and I wish to write as good as Edgar one day.
It can be hard. I had to define a lot of the older English words. But, once i did, i actually cried. I put myself in his shoes, which isn’t hard to do, because true love is so hard to find, i can only imagine someone like that loving me... and then to lose them...
I just want to mention... at 0:51-and each time since, that’s the sound of a crow, not a Raven. Ravens have more of a croaking noise, and can imitate human words. Other than this easy to make mistake, i love this video!
The connotations of this poem would surely remain outside the door of my comprehension had I not opened my window lattice to this video of yours. Thanks a lot.
There is a reason that Poe refers to the bust as that of Palas and not Palas-Athena. Although readily accepted as a duality (Palas-Athena) Myth states them as look alike but separate childhood mates. All ened ill for Palas when a sparring accident of Athena killed her. Palas was human.
00:11 - Plot 02:36 - Key characters 03:47 - Lenore 04:21 - Central symbols 06:43 - Pluto 07:26 - Central themes 08:41 - Death in the afterlife 09:25 - Loss and grief 10:08 - Loss of the past
Has anyone else considered that Lenora could be the narrator’s daughter? I’ve heard many people call her his lover or imply they were in a relationship but the word “maiden” pertains to an unmarried girl, a virgin. It takes a very close loved one to make a man so overcome by grief that it would lead his to madness and death
This is such good analyzing! I suggest to those watching, watch, “Edgar Allan Poe’s THE RAVEN” on youtube then watch this, trust me you’ll have a very clear understanding.
All one must do is read almost any of Poe's works enough times, and you will begin to understand what is happening in the background. I am 47 years old, and I've been reading his works since I was 14, I've only had to turn to a breakdown of one of his poems in all this time, The Conqueror Worm. Sometimes I wonder if that is just because it is just so long.
So wait, Poe was even mixing ancient mythologies? The Roman god Pluto (Plutonium shores) and the Greek goddess Athena (Pallas Athena)? Interesting! Duality is everywhere in this poem.
I'm doing apart of my Extended Essay for the IB program and upon reading it I really felt like Poe was trying to reveal the duality that of human nature, seeing as how both light and the darkness are constant contrasts made within the poem. Like the man in the poem was conversating with himself- the side of him that has embraced the darkness of the situation, but he simply will not confirm to such a standard.
I can now see how this poem is considered literary genius-- it starts out on a note of neutrality, then a just a PINCH of lightheartedness/humor, then plunges the readers into the "dark side" with ever increasing notes notes of depression, anger, fear and madness, or what could be called too, a loss of BALANCE. There is NO doubt E.A.P. had A LOT on his mind, and thoughts have "weight" of a sort. There IS, I detect, a DANGER in really getting to know such a poem and/or identifying with it....A Danger of joining Mr. Poe on "Pluto's shores" The Twilight Zone, or just plain HELL, generally NOT a good idea to be knocking on Mr. Poe's door....Unless you're VERY CONFIDENT as your status a "RAVEN".😶😐😶😐
I'm just trying to understand this after randomly remembering the Simpsons first Treehouse of Horror episode that featured it, I recommend it to anyone wanting ANOTHER view on the story because seeing Homer depicted as the speaker is interesting (its season 2 episode 3 @ 16:01 btw)
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I'm more captivated by the poethic rhyme in all of the 18 stanzas. But thanks for the effort of this copyreader in translating Edgar Allan Poe's poem into plain English.
I think the door and the lattice symbolize the heart and the mind; the raven can sneak in at any moment you open your heart. It can change your mind on many views even if it goes against logic, perched on Pallas.
raven is a death itself and athena is a battle of love when you are alive then raven on top of athena is you must fight for your love until his death or before she is gone raven itself symbols that you must accept why your love leave after life death you accept it that it is been necesity then don't even blame and curse yourself despair vs hope death vs acceptance. that is my analysis
Also worth mentioning is that there is a myth about Athena and a raven. In the myth, the raven was white, but it bore bad news or it lied (myths often vary) and something tragic happened. so she punished him by turning him black. T
Poet: let me just describe the color of the door: the door is red Teacher: the color of the door (red) symbolises the grief and anger of the poet. Poet: it just means the door is red
Hey, loved all the analysis. Is there any further information or the original source where you got the information about the goddess Athena? I need a credited source for my research paper and so far, have not had any luck.
Often the appearance of a raven is linked to Halloween time, meaning a death-realm is near, but often it's only a warning about some old aspect of us has to die, to leave place to something new and better: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fOG-N5ru8Lg.html
Edgar Allan Poe never wrote "The Raven," he merely claimed it in a kind of 19th-century "identity theft." The poem's premiere was submitted anonymously to "American Review" under the pseudonym "---- Quarles" by the true author, Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Poe, a literary critic for the New York "Evening Mirror," finding the poem in an advance copy of "American Review," scooped Mathew in his own paper by two days. Mathew had shared a copy of "The Raven" with Poe in early 1842, so Poe had a handwritten copy in his possession. This enabled him to convince his editor that he had permission to scoop "American Review"--but he mysteriously left the "Mirror" shortly afterwards (suggesting that he may have been fired for lying about it). It is the height of absurdity that the editor of a newly-launched monthly literary magazine like the "Review," would have given a daily newspaper this permission. The real author was not in a position to reveal his identity because of his anti-slavery work and connection with the Underground Railroad, and hence could not publicly defend himself. My paper, "Evidence that Edgar Allan Poe Stole 'The Raven' from Mathew Franklin Whittier," can be downloaded from the following link, or it can be read by searching for the paper's title in Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_The_Raven.pdf
Did he kill Lenore? And he knows he killed Lenore and he's just trying to lie to himself saying he didn't and the nevermore means nevermore which was probably her last words?
He just meant that if she didn't want to get physical, then she would nevermore get "it that way". And if she didn't want a husband, she could have as many as she wanted or none at all, and nevermore would she be forced to marry idiots. And if she didn't want to give physical birth to an ACTUAL HUMAN BABY, then she would nevermore get that chance. And she cried tears of "🥱 OK FINE IM PRETTY TIRED RIGHT NOW..." 😘 THIS IS HOW I 😴 AND HETFIELD TAUGHT ME THAT
