The Raven Thesis

After reading The Raven readers might noticed something off about it. It seemed like it was describing hell from the point of view who actually have been there before. Many people have been scared about the idea of hell and do not want to go there once their life here on earth ends, but not Edgar Allan Poe. Being an addict and an alcohol abuser, Poe might have saw hell; Poe might have even been there once, and somehow he was able to remember what it looked like. Poe might have hallucinated and was able to see an imagery of hell. I believe that his famous poem The Raven was based on what he saw in hell. Edgar Allan Poe used context clues in his famed poem The Raven to indirectly describe what hell is like. Every single thing on the poem symbolizes
Let me start of from the most noticeable character from "The Raven", the raven itself. The raven in the poem came from nowhere and the raven did not say where it came from nor say why it was there to begin with. The raven caused the narrator agony and suffering. Just like the devil itself. The devil will caused you a never ending pain and agony that will span through infinity. The devil will leave you broken and defeated just like who the raven did to the

narrator.The second thing that is connected to hell is the narrator's chamber. I believe that the chamber is the hell itself. This is because of it's eery and ominous presence. The third thing that symbolizes hell is the door. In the poem Poe wrote, "Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door". I believe that the door signifies the portal to the 9 circles of hell. In a book called Dante's Inferno there were nine places to punish people based on what they did on earth. There are three major circles that are connected to Poe himself. The three circles are the Circle of Lust, Circle of Gluttony, and Violence which is also connected to suicide. The
This circles of hell are the places where the portal or the narrator's chamber door will lead you. The last thing that symbolizes something from hell is the word "Nevermore". Every time that the raven speaks it only responded "Nevermore", whatever kind of question that the narrator ask it never said anything besides the word "Nevermore". I believe that this means that once you enter hell and meet the devil, there will be nowhere out of it and the amount of begging will not be enough to get you out of hell.

The Raven one of the most famous poem written by Edgar Allan Poe picked my interest and I concluded that Edgar Allan Poe wrote this poem this describe hell. The poem had many context for the readers to find out the true meaning behind Edgar Allan Poe word plays. I believe that this paper pointed out most of the symbolic figures that will support my hypothesis about Poe's views on what hell actually looked