Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who lived 1809 – 1849. He is best known for his poems and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the gothic macabre. Edgar Allan Poe led a life filled with sorrow and pain and understandably his works tend to reflect his lifestyle by incorporating dark mysterious and melancholic elements.
Edgar Allan Poe is maybe best remembered for his mysterious poem ‘The Raven.’, which was published just 4years before the poet’s mysterious death at the early age of 40.
Named after a talking raven, the main character of the poem is a distraught lover, torn between the desire to forget and the desire to remember.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
