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The theme of the story "The Premature Burial'' is terror and its effect on the narrators mind. The narrator has a condition where he randomly falls into a death like sleep. he tells of people who have been buried alive only to have barely got out with their lives. After the narrator gets into an incident on a boat, the narrator wakes up thinking he woke up in a coffin but only to find out that he wasn't and he had been cured of his condition. Poe's theme in ''The Premature Burial'' is very similar to his other works. I find it most similar to "The Raven". "The Raven" is about the narrator who lost his wife and is trying to forget her death. he then hears a tapping at his door and its a raven. The raven symbolizes death and he ends up dying at the end which gives fear....