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For this paper (app. 2000 words) you need to do the following:
- Select a text upon which you will bring to bear two theoretical approaches.
- Choose which theoretical approaches you will bring to bear on the text. You may wish to do some research on what scholarship has been written on the text to guide your choices (see 3. below).
- Find at least one scholarly article for each theoretical approach that addresses your chosen literary text (see 2. above).
- Write an essay in which you discuss the application of each of the two theories to your text. This should include the scholarly articles you find but also utilize your own understanding and reading of the text, based on the two theories.
- Finally, argue which of the two theories you feel is more useful in developing an understanding of the overall text. This is a judgment call on your part--while both theories will (arguably) be useful, which theory ultimately helps you and readers come to a more thorough and meaningful understanding of the text as a work of literary art.
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THE RAVEN BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Biography
I cannot start this essay without first giving a little inside in Edgar Allan Poes tragical, or how they mostly
describe it “dreary” life.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 from parents David and Elizabeth Poe. Both of his parents
were actors and both of them left him in early years of his life, his father by choice and his mother died
of tuberculosis. He was then adopted by John and Frances Allan and lived with them till adulthood.
Because of his enrolment into University of Virginia and his wish to become a writer, he constantly
fought with his foster father. After death of his foster mother, again as a result of tuberculosis, he briefly
made piece with his foster father who helped him get into West Point military academy, but got kicked
out just a year after. His relationship with his foster father, by then, was non existent, so he moved to
Baltimore, afterwards to Philadelphia and New York were he pursued his writing career and mostly lived
in poverty.
As for his love life, Poe married his first cousin Virginia Clemm who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in
1842 and died shortly after publication of his instant success poem “The Raven”. After her death Poe
became depressed and consumed alcohol in large quantities to drown his sorrow. He was engaged to be
married with Sarah Helen Whitman, but the engagement failed because of his drinking problem.
Edgar Allan Poe mysteriously died in 1849, in Baltimore and the cause of his death has never been
established.
Psychoanalysis of the poem
This poem has two main characters: the narrator and the raven, but also mentions character named
Lenore.
The narrator
The narrator is believed to be representation of Poe a lonely man sitting alone in his room, reading some
long forgotten book and mourning his loved one Lenore. Alone, because nobody can understand him
especially his only parent, his foster father, who opposed to his writing career. And now that his wife is
dying he will be left alone, in poverty, without moral support. This will later be manifested in Poes life as
a drinking problem that he coul...
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