Depiction Of Personal Experience In Novel "The Raven"

Edgar Allen Poe’s draw my life shows a lot of bad emotions and is carried on through his story “The Raven”. Edgar’s Draw my life (Poe's Life) talks about his bad past and how he lost a significant amount of people during those times. Those times weren’t always the best either with school and other family issues, I think that the story The Raven ties in a lot with that. His dad abandoned his family and his mother died, so he has already dealt with loss many times before. When his wife died in 1847 he had no motivation to do anything after her passing. Edgar Allen Poe’s emotions are carried out through his writing with gloominess, trouble, and also his past experiences. In the Raven, it talks about Lenore even though she wasn’t dead when the Raven was released.

The Draw my Life focus point was about what happened during his life, but watching that made me realize how many people he lost meant a lot to him. “sorrow for the lost Lenore.” The “sorrow for the lost Lenore” shows that Edgar is gloomy because it's saying sorrow and that interprets as being sad and or not happy. It also mentions Lenore and how he lost her. I feel like that ties in with his past. Poe has already been through losing people. Lenore was a focus point in Raven even though it was published before her death. In the Draw, my Life also talks about how he didn’t make it back in time when his step-mom died. It was mentioned early in the video that he was closest with his step-mom and did not like his step-dad, losing her hurt him a lot. He turned on a different path after that and went to live with his Grandma and his Aunt. I think both of the stories represent many different emotions and I think being gloomy is just one of the many that Edgar Allan Poe tried to express, through his writing.

Another one of the emotions that I feel Poe had a connection with is being troubled. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Being troubled ties into the poem and draw my life because he has been through a lot. In his Draw, my Life talks about how he had an issue with drinking and betting that somehow ties in with something in his past, or shows he had a bad time with something. That was also a reason why he got kicked out of the college for spending all of his stepdad’s money that was giving for college (University of Virginia) on gambling and drinking. He was also told that one of the longest poems he made when he was fifteen years old was too complicated and people didn’t understand it. It concerned them differently. He already didn’t like his stepdad and his stepdad, later on, cut him out of his life, after he married another woman in secret. He was expelled from another school for bad behavior again. Poe still didn’t have many friends or any friends at all. Being troubled and or scared from your past can take up a lot of mental space. Troubled was one of the best ways I could think of for describing what he was feeling while writing his poem.

Someone with such distinct words and usage of those words has to be experienced. Experienced in trauma or practice. “all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. “ This evidence I picked out from the raven because I felt like it had a deeper meaning than it expressed. One thing that stuck out to me about this was “‘ all my soul within me burning’”. That is very expressive. Edgar had away with his words. He made it so you could imagine it, but not just in one way he did it many ways. The text is very expressive. In the Draw, my Life also talks about how I took an interest in wiring poems and writing in general. He has been doing it for so long, that not including his past and how hard it was for him to get through some of the obstacles he faced. Those expenses fed into him producing amazing work, that told a story in a way that American Literature has never seen before. Writing so young and it may not be making the most sense to some people, it still told an emotional story.

Important details overall are his emotions in his storytelling through his words and literature. His emotions feeding into that through his past. Reading some of his other stories as well showed me that he put everything into these. His past bled into his poems, that’s what made them so unique to normal American literature.