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AT first, the sppeaker of "The Raven" assumes that the raven has come from.....?
Where does he think the raven came from, in other words...

2007-10-30 10:36:55 · 2 answers · asked by muuahh 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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The speaker first identifies the raven through its tapping, and assumes that someone outside is rapping at the chamber door in order to gain entry.
The raven is a metaphor for the constant remainder of a loved one who has been lost through death. Poe had an obvious obsession with death and a preoccupation with his own mortality. B.

2007-10-30 10:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Brian M 5 · 0 1

"Night's Plutonean shore..." The underworld. The land of the dead. Realm of Pluto. In Greek myth, the dead were ferried across the River Styx by Chaeron, the ferryman. Family tucked a gold coin under the tongue of the dead person so that he could find it in the other world, when he had to pay the ferryman. The speaker had lost Leonore to death.

2007-10-30 17:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0 1

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