【正文】 s shadow and shall be lifted Nevermore. The raven, a symbol of death, tells the man he will never again (nevermore) see his beloved, never again hold her–even in heaven. The motif of the ―devilbeast‖ as the harbinger of misery and sorrow, found here in the form of the raven. In The Raven, the ebony bird stands as the embodiment of grief caused by loneliness and separation, referencing not only Poe39。s recitation by the narrator, the raven still is sitting on the bust of Pallas. The narrator39。s ically serious disposition, the man demands that the bird tell him its name. The raven39。s pessimism. Edgar Allen Poe‘s The Raven (1845) sits eternally On the pallid bust of Pallas that is, a pale marble headandshoulders of Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom. The bird39。c son of Carc is the leader of the Ravens. In the wellknown ballad The Three Ravens, a slain knight is depicted from the point of view of ravens that seek to eat him but are prevented by his loyal hawks, hounds and leman (lover). The first name Bram is derived from a convergence of two separate etymological sources, one being an abbreviation of Abraham, but the other being the Gaelic word bran, meaning raven. American writer Edgar Allan Poe39。s The Faerie Queene, the raven39。 novel Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of Eighty, the raven Grip is an important character. In other works of literature, Christopher Marlowe39。 and she did not return to him any more. The raven was the first bird to see the new world after the flood and if the raven had reentered the ark, he would have corrupted it, since he was ―unclean.‖ Ravens are considered an unclean bird. They eat mostly carrion. The dove is an emblem of a gracious soul, that, finding no solid peace of satisfaction in this deluged, defiling world, returns to Christ as to its ark, as to its Noah, its rest. The carnal heart, like the raven, takes up with the world, and feeds on the carrion it finds there. So it is revealing that the raven is sometimes viewed as an evil bird since it did not immediately return, but the to and fro of the above Revised Standard Version seems to indicate that it was engaged in its proper ―housekeeping‖ activities as carrion bird. 9 The Symbol of Death and Calamity In Western culture, a crow is also used as a symbol of despair and death. The raven is often depicted in classic literature. William Shakespeare refers to the raven more often than to any other birds。 and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf。 and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground。 Its ringing bells reach my boat at midnight. In this poem, in the autumn night, the passenger visits from the outside. There is a maple parked. The sun has been fallen, and the crow sound, and the sky is full of frost, the river maple and the light e from the little fishing boat, this cold autumn night fishing village and stayed with a boat from home, letting him feel how sad it is. The poem writes what he sees and what he hears, and the feeling of his is obvious. What a sad map it is. 3 The Analysis of crow in Western culture The Positive Meaning The crow shows remarkable examples of intelligence, and Aesop‘s fable of the crow and the Pitcher shows that humans have long viewed the crow as an intelligent bird. In the fable, a thirsty crow es upon a pitcher a crow, halfdead with thirst, es upon a pitcher which had once been full of water。s down, crows cry and frost fills all the sky。 姑蘇城外寒山寺， 夜半鐘聲到客船 。s level of awareness and mind continue to progress, from the nature binding gradually set free from the nature worship to reexamine the world, and recognize people39。s psychological sense, the crow does not have the ancient mystery acolor. At the same time, it is also found that the crow is not feeding, then the mysterious of crow would be gone which is given by the Confucian ethic. Crow experienced the evolution of the cultural connotation of The sun bird bird filial piety the evil bird which also reflects the people39。 the sanctity of the crow begin to decline. In Qu Yuan39。 the sanctity of the crow begin to decline. The negative meaning is the major aspect. The Coming of the Negative Meaning However, with the historical changes, as social development and people39。s biological instinct to explanation of ethics, and further to the mystery. In addition, there is another work《藝文類聚》 says that―日中三足烏之精，降而生三足烏。s feudal rule, under the dynastic advocacy to match the Confucian culture, Xiao is the cornerstone of Chinese moral ethics, starting from the Confucian precisely to define the virtues of filial piety, parents as a lifegiving, and tending to, not only have a loving, but also help their children and others to establish the initial connection and contact, therefore, the Confucius advocates that we should respect our teachers and we should hold our spiritual virtues loyalty, which are the extended of the filial piety. And filial piety has the same structure and nature of the fittness. When the Confucianism establishes the dominated position in Han dynasty, filial piety bee the Confucian family ethics promulgated by the core content, but rose to political discourse, and creates the official title of give Xiaolian, which is a major event in China since ancient times. It must have miraculous beginning of all to promote the filial piety of course, but who can receive this kind of responsibility. Although the decline of the sun myth, the myth about the sun birds in people39。s part, and the strange nine sun shine in the boughs, located above the solar maximum, and a golden raven stands among the sun. The haven is a place where people imagine having better life. Xinzhui wants her sou