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).

Texts with same theme from other authors

The theme of madness has been skillfully explored by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Wider Contexts). In the story, a woman is diagnosed with depression and, as a result, is confined in a room with a yellow wallpaper by her husband. As she cannot express her feelings freely and cannot communicate with others, the woman...