How Does Edgar Allan Poe Use Allusions In The Raven

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Allusion in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Early American literature from 1800-1840 is known as Romanticism. Before this time literature has been based on religion when the Puritans were prominent and based on logic during the Enlightenment period. These literature topic of Romanticism inspired a movement called gothicism. Famous gothic writers included dark, bizarre themes to their writings. One of these famous Gothic writers is Edgar Allan Poe. He included many literary devices from this time such as allusion. Poe uses this literary element in his famous poem, “The Raven.” Edgar Allan Poe’s first allusion refers to mythology. The narrator notices the visiting raven, “Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door” (Poe 41). Pallas,
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