No conocía la faceta poeta de Edgar Allan Poe, y me ha impresionado, aunque exceptuando a El cuervo no han superado para mí a sus relatos

BOOK REVIEW #2 "The raven", is an INCREDIBLE 89 page book that is very well worded. Its so well written you can feel the emotion in the words as you read. Edgar Allen Poe is an american writer who is very famous for his stories of horror,and mystery such as the book,"The raven"and"The fall of the house of usher". The poems are amazing and each have a unique story to tell. The two poems that I felt impacted me the most were,"Alone"and," A dream within a dream". "Alone", was a very sad story that touched me in so many ways. I loved how he talked about the different things that the character was feeling at the same time. I also enjoyed how the words were written as if you were the person feeling these emotions.
The second poem I read was, "A dream within a dream". This poem was very deep and made me appreciate the things that all of us take for granted. This poem however, had a plot twist. It went from being in a dream, to having fear that he would never awake again. I loved the wording in this poem as well. I also loved how he made me feel fear, and happiness at the same time. This poem was truly a poem to remember.
This book was a page-turner and made me want to read it again and again. I absolutely loved the intense feeling I felt when I kept turning pages. I would recommended this book to anyone who likes plot twist and cliff hanger endings. But remember, always watch your back!!!

I thought this book was okay. It was a good, short book to read. This book is definitely not my favorite poetry book that I have read before, but it was an okay book.

Me encanto.. un par para la lista de favoritos.

Me da pena darle este puntaje porque la verdad que es Poe y es un gran escritor lo sé. Pero cuando hago una reseña lo hago desde MI punto de vista y desde MIS sensaciones mientras leo un libro.

Dicho esto y aclarado tengo que decir que en muchos de los cuentos que están acá diría que en 4 de 7 no entendí del todo la historia o lo que el autor quería decir.

El lenguaje no es del todo fácil para mí. Estoy más acostumbrado a leer literaturas juveniles más ágiles y Poe es un autor que personalmente me parece muy complejo de leer.

También quiero aclarar que está era a primera vez que leía al autor.

En el libro pueden encontrar:
La caída de la casa Usher
Los crímenes de la calle Morgue
El corazón delator
La máscara de la muerte roja
Berenice
Ligeia
William Wilson

En conclusión, los cuentos están buenísimos y son bastante cortos pero me fue muy difícil meterme en las historias y cuando por fin lograba meterme era ya en el final.

I hope everyone is proud!! Only liked 3 of these poems but it’s getting 4 stars anyway. Goal is to read an actual book in 2025

Nunca más nunca más nunca mas

A Edgar Allan Poe sólo le pagaron 10 dólares por publicar su poema en el Evening Mirror, pero de pronto se dio cuenta que había tocado el cielo con la manos. Lo invitaban a distintas reuniones de la alta sociedad a recitar de un tirón su famoso poema, lúgubre, melancólico y fatalista. Una obra de arte en la que la aliteración nos lleva, nos mece y nos hechiza.
Esta edición es interesante en dos aspectos: es bilingüe y El Cuervo está ilustrado por el más grande ilustrador del siglo XIX, que fue Gustave Doré, quien también hizo maravillosas ilustraciones de La Biblia, La Divina Comedia, El Paraíso Perdido, La Balada del Viejo Marinero y muchas obras más. Otros poemas incluidos en este libro son en también dignos de disfrutar, como Annabel Lee, Ulalume, Eldorado, Las Campanas, A mi Madre y Solo.
En tan solo 160 páginas, lo mejor del poemario de Poe, quien nos muestra unos de sus costados menos conocidos: el sensible, puesto que así era realmente en su vida real.

read it if you dare.

I've just read this all at once and the hypnotic obscurity of Poe's writing took my breath away. I found myself highlighting, dog-earing and loudly reciting nearly every page of this awesome little book, and I hope I'll be able to concatenate my tangled thoughts into something that resembles an actual review sometime. Poe is the ultimate gothic demon and I couldn't be more enamored with his majestically dark poetry. I wish I could be the raven, someone to give him the comfort of a loyal company amidst the hollowness of his madness.

The Raven is oft-considered the greatest American poem, and in the force of its verse and the reality of its content, I strongly agree. Edgar Allen Poe is known for his short stories and dark subject matter, and in the Raven, that centers around love and loss. What makes the Raven so compelling is at least threefold.

First, it is essential because its ideas are universal, commenting on experiences that everyone has or will someday experience. Although Poe uses the relationship between a student and his lover, the meaning can be extended beyond that narrow scope to any loss of a loved one. This brings the poem to anyone with the attention and patience to listen.

Second, the rhyme is powerfully written. Poe makes use of stanzas which are formulated by a unique structure of acateletic octameter, cataletic heptameter, and cataletic tetrameter. The first two alternate and the latter concludes each stanza. Poe enhances the rhythm and the mood of the poem by the repeated use of the “or” sound such as “explore”, “yore”, “lord”, “door”, “decorum”, “shorn”, and many others. This sound produces a feeling, inciting the reader to melancholy, the aimed tone of The Raven, and in that he comments on the fundamental impression that the poem is supposed to give: beauty. According to Poe, beauty, in its supreme form, incites the sensitive soul to tears (or melancholy). This melancholy rises and steps before it crescendos into a climax, the rising madness and uncertainty elucidating a certain desperateness on the part of the student who seeks consolation from the loss of his lover, but in that the Raven provides no answers. In fact, the Raven, unable to understand the queries of the student, is only able to reply with the one word in his vocabulary: nevermore.

On this point, the thirdfold reason for the Raven’s greatness is in the undercurrents of the worldview that it reveals about Poe. Poe flirts with the truth, the student succumbing to despair as the cold, harsh reality of the world without a divine hits true: despair serves no purpose and it cannot be escaped from... life is both painful and terminates. The Raven’s answers to his queries reveal that much, always responding, “Nevermore.” Is there comfort? Nevermore. Will he see his beloved again? Nevermore. Will you leave me alone? Nevermore. The madness of the student grows, and in it the student attributes to the Raven an animus that it indeed never possessed. Poe reveals a certain degree of existentialism in his comments here, placing man in the position of the student, searching for a meaning, that (according to the mood of the poem) doesn’t exist. The Raven reveals not only despair and love, and through that beauty, but also fundamental questions around suffering, making one wonder, why do I suffer so? What makes the suffering worthwhile? The Raven, melancholic, different from another poem in this collection, offers no answers, taking a materialistic view on the issue, highlighting that the pain doesn’t go away and can’t be removed.

On the whole, the Raven’s greatness can be discussed, but it should be experienced. Few poets have the rhyme and verse of Edgar Allen Poe whose words jump off the page and almost take their own form for the potency of their meaning. This same greatness is found, albeit less strikingly, in some of the other works of his found in this collection. Lenore discusses death in terms of hope in the afterlife. Annabel Lee considers the soul-unity of a man and his love. Tamerlane explores dreams passed over. The Haunted Palace is similar in thought to Ozymandias. Each contains flashes of Poe’s brilliance, but none quite like the Raven.

I’d postulate that the Raven is the one poem that everyone should read and understand. If reading the Raven, I'd also recommend reading Poe's explanation of The Raven in an essay called The Philosophy of Composition. 5/5.

P.S. This is not the exact version I read from, so there might be some differences in the collection itself.

my Favorite poem by Poe