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Poe's 'The Raven.'.(narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19990322
Author:Freedman, William

Most readers appear to be content with the claim of one critic that author Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem 'The Raven' is a straightforward narrative whose subject and source of universal appeal is the loss of someone beloved. A scrutiny of the poem, however, will show that Poe moves beyond the relatively simple issue of the speaker's state or mind or longing for well being to concerns about the possibility of meaningful response, whether from the depths of the self or from oracles of external truth.

Edward Davidson, in his book Poe, A Critical Study, observed that "The Raven" may ...

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