Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven
A man’s lost love that might drive him mad. “The Raven”, written by Edgar Allen Poe, is believed to be symbolic of his own life. But it seems to me that it shows that Poe was also either Psychic or a time traveler. This poem seems to predict Poe’s own future. Poe, an alcoholic, who because of his drinking lost good jobs had a bright bright spot in his life, his wife Virginia. Virginia was his cousin; he married her when he was 27 and she was thirteen. She only lived two years after “The Raven” was published. I believe “The Raven” was written as a prediction of Poe’s sorrow after he lost Virginia.
This was not the only story that Poe wrote that predicted the future. In In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a book called, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon