Question

What does the speaker of “The Raven” have in common with the poet Edgar Allan Poe?

Both the speaker and Poe suffered mental anguish and misery on losing their companions.
Both the speaker and Poe believed that they interacted with a talking raven.
Both the speaker and Poe lost a woman that they loved named Lenore.
Both the speaker and Poe had become orphaned at a very young age.

Answer 1

The answer is option 1. Both the speaker and Poe suffered mental anguish and misery on losing their companions.

Step-by-step explanation:

In “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator suffers deeply for his lover’s death. He also exposes the narrator's loneliness, despair, and melancholy, translated into the sadness shown through his own madness. In Edgar Allan Poe’s biography, it is stated that the writer suffered mental anguish for the death of his wife Virginia.

Answer 2

Both the speaker of “The Raven” and the poet Edgar Allan Poe have in common that they suffered mental anguish and misery on losing their companions. Option A is correct.

Edgar Allan Poe became popular for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely considered as a key figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole.

When he was a child, his father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year, so he was onpharned.