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TITLEIsrafel is said to be a Koranic angel who has the “sweetest voice of all God’s creatures.” He is the angel of resurrection and song in Arabic folklore. He will blow the trumpet on judgement day. Edgar Allan Poe uses the angel Israfel to bring the idea of misery on earth by building up the idea of perfection in this angel. He does this in the first five stanzas of the poem “Israfel.” In the last three stanza’s Poe compares heaven and earth to show the reader the v