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Hum- 100 The Raven Mod 5 SNHU Dalton Stiening Describe the selected work. "The Raven" is a poem written in a narrative style written by the legendary American author Edgar Allan Poe. It was published in the year 1845, To this day it is widely considered one of Poe's most recognized works, praised for its dark gothic tone. The poem is a story of a grieving unnamed narrator who is visited in the midnight hour by a ominous talking raven in the cold dark of December. The narrator, is mourning the loss of a woman named Lenore, begins to become maddingly fixated on the raven's presence as it repeats one word repetitively "Nevermore." Describe the time period the work belongs to. The 19 th century in America was a time in which cultural and literary growth and education was at its peak and flourishment many prominent authors and thinkers emerged like henry David Thoreau and walt Whitman it was a time some would say that philosophy and literature became an outlet for political and personal frustration to the industrialization of a once beautifully natural and rural country. Determine the culture the work belongs to and describe its value to that culture. The poem the raven does not belong to a specific culture but is unequivocally defined as a piece of American literature that transcends all cultural divides due to its gothic theme and representation of grief loss and the agony of such emotions Explain how the cultural work helped deal with specific societal issues of the time . While the poem itself didn’t directly deal with any specific societal or political issues
Hum- 100 of the time, It is good to note that the leading causes of death in the mid-19 th century was infectious dieses and medical ignorance, with that being said the war of 1812 had went on up until the year 1814 when the poem “The Raven” was published so between the sickness and the war I believe this work was extremely helpful in facilitating an understanding of the grief loss and angst a lot of Americans were felling during this time period. References Hickey, D. R. (1989). The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. University of Illinois Press. Hayes, K. J. (2004). The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge University Press. Smith, J. (1812). Report on the Spread of Typhoid Fever in New England. In Journal of Medicine and Health, 3(2), 45-56. Medical Publications.
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