For my literature project I have to read 8 poems and get the theme statements for all of them, but I am terrible at making up theme statements. This poem is my main concern, but I also need a theme statement for these poems:
-Fairy-Land by Edgar Allan Poe
-The Beauty of Death by Kahlil Gibran
-The Fear of Life and Death by Sri Aurobindo
-Fancy in Nubibus (or Poet in the Clouds) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-Why Did I Laugh Tonight? by John Keats
-The Fear by Robert Frost
-Reluctance by Robert Frost
The theme statement has to be a complete sentence.
2007-10-26 10:09:15 · 2 answers · asked by ElizabethAmber 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
The raven:
The Raven is wholly occupied with the author's typical theme—the irretrievable loss of an idolized and beautiful woman; but on other grounds, also, the public instinct is correct in thinking it his representative poem.
good luck
2007-10-27 18:22:31 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Raven in poe's poem, is mocking the man.
The raven confirms the man's greatest fear, that the man's beloved Lenore, when she died, passed into utter non-existance.
What do YOU think it means?
2007-10-26 17:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by Spiffs C.O. 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋