Intellect In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

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¨Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...¨, is the beginning to a poem that took the nation, the world by storm. It changed the world of poetry forever, letting a new era sweep in and flourish. In the poem ¨The Raven¨ by Edgar Allen Poe, the phenomena known as the character of the Raven itself, is in fact a real Aves. Poe, was known for his exaggerated stories that, supplementally implied not to read his works word for word, or the interpretation of his stories could be completely different. Throughout the poem there are different pieces of textual evidence that with the right amount of intellect can be stated as proof that the Raven was indeed a truly real bird. Multiple times Poe expresses blunt attributes in what just in going on in his works, the same can be said for his poem “The Raven”. Poe may use exaggerations like when the narrator first recognises the figure to be a raven, “In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore”. It is just common knowledge that a bird just cannot be over hundreds of thousands of years old. But that only talks about part of the statement. All in the span of twelve words, Poe, bombards the words with multiple meanings. Like “ In stepped a stately Raven..”, a Corvus Corax more commonly known as a raven is one of the highest intellectual among birds, it uses its’ brain to recognise the conservation of energy by walking almost with a pompous manner in along the ground instead of flying to and from places for leisure. There are many more pieces of evidence that could be used to express that the Raven in the poem “The Raven” was in fact an actual bird, but there also can be arguments for it not being a truly real bird. As mentioned before, there are those who read “The Raven” in a different light, going on to believe that the Raven was in fact not a real bird. It really can be seen from both sides how each would believe they are right when it comes to the this matter. For instance, “Once upon a midnight dreary…”, meaning at the time of midnight all of this went down. Due to clinical research and preservation studies, it has come to light that ravens are in fact diurnal animals, they are primarily active in the day. Now it is not saying that the raven itself was not real, but the context of the poem itself are. Such as a raven being the devil itself and coming from the Plutonian shores just to haunt the …show more content…
People have very different minds from one another causing for the diversity of what Poe meant exactly with the Raven being real or not. That diversity though, brings people back around from believing that the Raven was just a figment of the narrator’s imagination to it being real again. For example, ravens and other bird species have enough of a cordial module to speak the complexity of a human word. So with enough work or enough exposure to any stimuli of any kind a raven or any animal with a strong enough intellect that has the complexity of brain patterns to reciprocate vocal patterns can copy or mimic such words. It is commonly known as Echopraxia.”Then the bird said “Nevermore.” So yes,“Quoth the Raven

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