Comparitve Analysis of the Raven Tell Tale Heart by...

Comparative Analysis of the Tell Tale Heart and the Raven Edgar Allen Poe was the author of several daunting works of literature. Two examples of Edgar Allen Poes literature are The Tell Tale Heart and The Raven. If we compare these two works, one a short story and the other a poem, we will see that Poe shows great mastery of symbolism, as well as other forms of literary technique. In these two stories, many people would say that Poe uses the tales to reflect the way he perceives life in general. Poe makes obvious use of symbolism, metaphors and imagery within these two works of literature. Within the poem The Raven Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery, in many different forms. Imagery is words that are used to create a†¦show more content†¦It is about how a man should be happy that a beautiful young woman is dying. He should exalt the fact that the woman is going to a better place, also known as Paradise or Aidenn in this poem. Thus, the echoing of Lenore first hints to the reader that this Lenore represents Poes suffering wife, but in this poem, she is characterized as the speakers already dead wife. The reader knows that the speakers wife is already dead since later in the poem the speaker says he wants the raven to leave him in unbroken loneliness. That is, Poe is trying to imagine getting news of the death of his wife through the speaker in his poem so that when his wife does die, he will not be terribly traumatized. Later, the speaker hears more rapping at his door. This time when he opens it, he finds a raven so noble and majestic that it would even dare to perc h on Pallas Athenas, the Goddess of Wisdom and Wars, bust, or breast. The first question he asks the raven is what its name is since he believes it to be from the Nights Plutonian shore, which means a messenger of Ares, the God of the Underworld and dead. God Ares. The raven simply replies Nevermore and answers every question with this word. The ravens name as Nevermore also furthers the statement that it is a symbolization of death. At first the speaker makes himself believe that when the raven says nevermore, he is muttering the fact that