The writer of the story is in love with a recently deceased woman. Edgar Allan Poe was going through a depressing time in his life where the love of his life was also dying. Poe's wife, Virginia, had a life-threatening illness and he knew he would lose her in the near future. This poem shows how Poe thought he would feel after his wife's death. The writer is all alone in his house, with no one, no relatives or friends coming to visit him because he has no one except his wife, Lenore and Poe knows that when his wife dies he will also be alone and will not have anyone there for him. The story is set in December, so it gives the reader the idea of ​​holidays and time spent with family, and it shows the reader that the writer had no one in his life except his wife. Poe is well known for Gothic poems and short stories, The Raven has many Gothic elements. It contains a lot of darkness, evil and sadness. It begins with "Once upon a sad midnight, while I pondered, weak and weary, upon many quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore - As I nodded, almost dozing, suddenly there was a touch, as of someone tapping softly, He knocks on my bedroom door. "It's some visitor," I muttered, "knocking on my room