Perspectives

We recommend you analyze the poem “The Raven” by associating it with the literary period in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote, with other works by Poe and with similar poems or short stories by other authors.

Other texts by the same author

Edgar Allan Poe is famous for the Gothic stories that belong to the literary movement called Dark Romanticism. Generally, his stories deal with the themes of the macabre, death and mystery. We recommend you read, for instance, the short stories “The Black Cat” (1843), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) or “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846).

In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Poe explores the them...