Question

State your opinion whether you think that the Raven (Edgar Allan Poe’s poem) fits into the Romantic movement or not. Base your opinion on what you have learned about the Romanticism, and on the way you perceived the poem while reading it. Name explicitly what elements of the poem made you choose your answer.

Answer 1

Answer: The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe’s poem) fits into the Romantic movement

Explanation:

The Raven is an excellent example of Romanticism, particularly of its Dark/Gothic side.

This kind of Romanticism has a dark approach present throughout Poe´s poem. For example, from the beginning, we have a description by the narrator of the exhausted state he is in reading long-forgotten books, which sets up the dim tone of the poem.

Another characteristic of

Dark Romanticism also presents many eerie symbols such as Poe´s raven itself. Furthermore, guilt and sin, usual feelings in Dark Romantic novels´ characters, are those of the narrator, who ends up driving himself crazy.