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Throughout my study of Poe, I have noticed several very common themes. Some of these are death, unusual settings, and exotic characters. However, on of the most common themes I have encountered during this study, is the death of a significant woman in the narrator’s life. One of Edgar Allen Poe’s most common themes was the unjust death of a woman that the narrator loved. One of my favorite stories by Poe that illustrates this theme is “The Raven.” In “The Rave,” the narrator’s lost love, Lenore, died of a mystery illness (possibly tuberculosis.). The narrator spends most of the poem grieving for Lenore and hoping, praying and wishing that she would come back. He is in so much grief that he even thinks that a raven was sent to tell him that he was never going to see her again. I think that each time he brought up this theme when he w