All over the world Edgar Allen Poe is recognized for his wonderful stories and poems, and one of his most famous poems was "The Raven." "The Raven" discusses the feelings that many people carry inside, including sorrow, grief, and loneliness. Even after many years people are still able to relate this poem to themselves in many ways.
             If the audience of this poem just reads the words, they will miss the true deeper meaning that someone can get out of this story. The poem starts out with a man who is trying to distract himself from the feelings that comes with a dead family member by reading. As he sits there he hears quiet tapping on the door, he doesn't want to go see who is making the noise so he ignores the sound. The tapping on the door symbolizes the man's feelings trying to escape him, but when he goes to see who is at the door, he is left with only darkness and his feelings remain inside of him. However, the tapping starts again and this time from the window. The man goes to check out the noise, and now there is something waiting for him. The raven, which is sitting outside the window flies inside. This is like the man's feelings finally being let out. Once he recognizes his feelings he tries to find closure to his problems by talking to the bird about ways in which he can move on past the death. The bird keeps repeating the same word, "Nevermore." Talking to the bird symbolizes how the man must consult his inner self to find strength that will help him overcome these hardships. As the poem continues, the man learns that these feeling might never go away because of his deep love of his wife. By the end of the poem, the man is trying to get rid of the raven because he doesn't want it around any longer, but the bird will not go away. This is as if now that the man has recognized the feelings he will never be able to go back to closing them out as he did before.
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