A Look into the Dark Side of Edgar Allan Poe - 1762 Words

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and was found barely conscious on a Baltimore street in 1949 two years after his wife’s death. Three days later Poe was dead at the age of forty. Just like the way he lived his life and died, many of his stories and poems were a mystery. Two of his most famous works â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† and â€Å"The Raven† were dark and mysterious fictions with dark characters and mysterious plots. â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† was a story about the dark act of satanic pursuit of revenge, unlike â€Å"The Raven† which invited us into the soul of a grieving man. Both stories were essential and gave meaning to what Poe was going through during those years of his life. His wife was sick and dying from â€Å"tuberculosis† (385). He had†¦show more content†¦Poe was a brilliant writer with a dark sense of realty. One of the best poems I read, â€Å"The Raven† is not only a tale of grief, but a story of tr iumph. The narrator, who I believe is Poe, is grieving the loss of his wife. As previously stated in this essay, Poe’s wife was dying from tuberculosis. During that time, medicine was not as good as it is today, which lead me to believe that Poe knew his wife was dying. â€Å"The Raven† is his way of grieving and trying to give reason to why his wife was leaving him in life. The raven in the story is not just a dark mysterious bird; it is his version of God. When he asks his questions to the Raven, he is speaking to his God. There are three questions that are asked to the raven throughout the story. The first question he asked the Raven was for his name when he stated: Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s plutonian shore (lines 46-47). Plutonian means dark; Pluto was the Greek God of the dead and ruler of the underworld (1017). The narrator is in a dark place so he feels his God is from the underworld; a dark God. 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