Dark Romanticism In The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe was an author, poet, editor, and literary critic, he was widely regarded as a central figure of Dark Romanticism. The Dark Romantics can be described as Gothic and serious. It focuses on death, heart-ache, hardship, mystery, obsession, madness, the supernatural and darkness. Also Dark Romanticism usually results in evil taking over the good. This is why “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is an example of Dark Romanticism it focuses on heartache, obsession and the supernatural. Heartache is one example, Poe uses in Dark Romanticism is found noticeably throughout “The Raven”. Heartache is emotional anguish or grief, typically caused by the loss or absence of someone loved. It is such an evident example of Dark Romanticism displayed…show more content…
The supernatural can best be described as anything that pertains to or is caused by something that can't be explained by the laws of nature. Poe uses this example of Dark Romanticism persistently all through “The Raven” he presents it in the fourth stanza “And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -Darkness there, and nothing more.” (Poe stanza 4) This quote displays the supernatural when the narrator opens the door and no one is there, it gives off a ghostly presents to the poem and makes the reader feel a sense of eeriness. The most prevalent example of it is shown in the eighth stanza, it states “Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.”(Poe stanza 8) The quote shows how Dark Romanticism can be shown through the supernatural because of the poem using personification when the raven responds to the narrator with “Nevermore” it gives the raven a since knowledge. The final example of the supernatural can be found in the seventh stanza But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -Perched, and sat, and nothing more.” The raven perches upon a bust of Pallas, this is a statue of an upper body of a Greek goddess of wisdom. It creates
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