I had not read the Raven before taking this class, I had heard of it but never read it, this bird was menacing, no? Edgar Allan Poe had such dark writings that I have to wonder what was going on in his mind to produce such stories. The story starts out fine, he's curious about the Raven and almost happy to see him, then you progressively get that paranoid, manic feeling. You get this sad loneliness from his stories, I loved the Raven and Annabel Lee, but they are both so sad because he is missing someone who has died, and is driven close to madness.
Though his stories are slightly disturbing and makes you wonder where he is drawing from, what happened in his life that he wrote such menacing, chaotic poems and stories, he did write so well that it does draw you in and he makes you feel the doom and danger that the character is feeling, while reading the Raven I started to feel the panic that the character was feeling, and I wanted the Raven to just go away.
I have to mention that I had watched The Simpson's today and the episode was a Halloween special and it had The Raven in it with Homer as the man and Bart as the Raven. I thought it was hilarious but I love the story (not with the Simpson's). I really love how Poe was in tune with his writing and how some of his characters had something in common with him such as the loss of a loved one.
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