His poem, The Raven, united his philosophical and aesthetic ideas. In this, Poe was able to vividly imagine the mental anguish of others because he had endured much suffering and pain in his own life. (Porges, 157) On the poem Le Corbeau, Charles Baudelaire said this: It is indeed a poem of the insomnia of despair; it lacks nothing: neither the fever of ideas, nor the violence of colors, nor sick reasoning, nor the slobbering terror, nor even the bizarre cheerfulness of suffering which makes it more terrible. (World Literature Criticism, 2751). The Raven is melancholic, dark and disturbing: all of Poe's best tones, all rolled into one. This is probably why The Raven is one of his best-known works. It was made into an episode of The Simpsons, along with another of his works, The Tell-Tale Heart. It has been adapted into countless films, many of which feature the famous actor Vincent Price. Overall, The Raven is one of Poe's best-known works because he brought all of his best writing talents to bear when he sat down to create his monster and masterpiece, "The