Analyzing Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe is incredibly famous for his dark themes of agony and death. In particular, The Raven, features a man slowly becoming mad after losing his love, Lenore. The speaker begins to speak to himself while sitting alone in his house. He hears a tapping outside the front door. He opens the door only to find no one there and blames the tapping on the wind against the windows. After opening the window, a raven flies in, and the speaker begins to talk to the crow. The crow only knows one word, but the speaker is slow to realize this and continues to ask painful questions. The man has gone mad and idealizes his dead love, Lenore.
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