Anlize the meaning of the raven in Poe's poem, "The Raven". The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

The symbolism
used in the poem "" byis
interesting. He uses the bird raven which has an occult or
mysterious . In
some Native American circles, the Raven is a messenger from the other side. 

Sometimes, the raven is a messenger of death.

The raven's tapping on
the
window provides a hypnotic effect coupled with some of theand
onomotopaea. This is a lament
about a lost lady-love, the raven is the
opposite of the sweetly singing nitingale.

The raven
symbolizes the nightmare and depression associated with the loss of love.

Other associations of death and decay are the location, the time: midnight, the
month:
December.