These themes are accompanied by memory, loss, and the supernatural. These two are some of the most common themes used throughout Poe’s oeuvre. In ‘The Raven,’ Poe engages themes that include death and the afterlife. The bird answers “Nevermore” and it appears the speaker is going to live forever in the shadow of the bust of Pallas above his door. It speaks to him, using only the word “Nevermore.” This is its response to everything the speaker asks of it.įinally, the speaker decides that angels have caused the air to fill in density and wonders if they’re there to relieve him of his pain. No one is there but a raven does fly into his room. But, eventually, he opens the door and looks into the darkness, wondering if it could be his beloved, Lenore, returned to him. The speaker tries to ignore it and convince himself that there’s no one there. Throughout the poem, the poet uses repetition to emphasize the mysterious knocking occurring in the speaker’s home in the middle of a cold December evening. ‘ The Raven‘ by Edgar Allan Poe is a dark and mysterious poem in which the speaker converses with a raven.
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