“There was a sad midnight, as I pondered, weak and weary,” is one of the most famous lines of poetry in America. Edgar Allan Poe had a life that most people would consider crazy. He wrote a famous poem called “The Crow” which is very strange like most of the poems he wrote. Edgar Allan Poe had a devastating childhood and a dark life as an adult. He was born on January 19, 1809, under the name Edgar Poe. His father soon abandoned Poe and his fate is unknown. When Poe was two years old his mother died. John Allan, who was part of the Ellis and Allan Tobacco Merchants, adopted it. Poe attended many schools because he could never stay in one school for long. In 1826 he attended the University of Virginia for less than a year and was expelled because he had never paid his gambling debts. Poe began to live a dark life after being kicked out because he had to live on the streets. He married his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836. He was happy until 1847 when Virginia Clemm died. He was so unhappy that a year later he attempted suicide. The circumstances of Poe's death remain a mystery. But after visits to Norfolk and Richmond for conferences, he was found in Baltimore in a pitiful condition and taken unconscious to a hospital where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849. He was buried in the courtyard of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. “The Raven” is a very important poem that has many literary devices and has great meaning. Edgar Allan Poe wrote many poems but “The Raven” is probably his most famous poem. “The Crow” was chosen because my teacher read it to the class in fourth grade and since then it has had a lot of meaning. This poem is about a "knock on my bedroom door" and then he realizes that a crow causes the knock on his bedroom door. The crow always says "Never again" and then goes so mad that he kills himself. He dies because the speaker says "And my soul from that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Will not be relieved, never again!" “The Raven” contains many literary devices such as symbolism, metaphors, sensory imagery, and personification. The raven symbolizes the conscious character. A metaphor in "The Raven" is that the raven is an "evil thing" that is represented throughout the poem.