The Raven Reader Response
The distinction between imagination and real life in literature is sometimes hard to identify. The authors of these types of works make imagination seem so realistic that the audience begins to believe the character's imagination. In the poem, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, an imaginary bird, or perceived to be an imaginary bird, flies into the narrator's home late in the night signaling to him that death was on its way. The bird in this poem may seem real but there are many signs that it is not.
In the beginning of the poem, Poe does not specify whether the bird was real or a figment of the narrator's imagination. From inferencing, it is easy to believe the bird is fictitious. As the poem is starting, it is said that the narrator is grieving the loss of his lover. A few lines later the narrator begins to hear the tapping on his door, but he opens it to find no one, “—here I opened wide the door— / Darkness there, and nothing more.” This is one sign …show more content…
The narrator opened the door a second time when the bird flew in, “Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— / Perched, and sat, and nothing more.” The bird acted like a normal bird, he did not look different from any other bird, he was just a normal bird, nothing to make him seem imaginary. It can also be easy to believe that the bird was real because the narrator did not act out of the ordinary when the bird showed up, “Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and door;” He strangely looked at the bird but never acted out of the ordinary until he realized the bird was a figment of his imagination.
This poem made it difficult to pick a side on whether the dark-colored bird was real or if it was being made up by the narrator. Many signs and things thought and said by the narrator made it easier to find evidence on how the bird was imaginary versus it being
The distinction between imagination and real life in literature is sometimes hard to identify. The authors of these types of works make imagination seem so realistic that the audience begins to believe the character's imagination. In the poem, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, an imaginary bird, or perceived to be an imaginary bird, flies into the narrator's home late in the night signaling to him that death was on its way. The bird in this poem may seem real but there are many signs that it is not.
In the beginning of the poem, Poe does not specify whether the bird was real or a figment of the narrator's imagination. From inferencing, it is easy to believe the bird is fictitious. As the poem is starting, it is said that the narrator is grieving the loss of his lover. A few lines later the narrator begins to hear the tapping on his door, but he opens it to find no one, “—here I opened wide the door— / Darkness there, and nothing more.” This is one sign …show more content…
The narrator opened the door a second time when the bird flew in, “Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— / Perched, and sat, and nothing more.” The bird acted like a normal bird, he did not look different from any other bird, he was just a normal bird, nothing to make him seem imaginary. It can also be easy to believe that the bird was real because the narrator did not act out of the ordinary when the bird showed up, “Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and door;” He strangely looked at the bird but never acted out of the ordinary until he realized the bird was a figment of his imagination.
This poem made it difficult to pick a side on whether the dark-colored bird was real or if it was being made up by the narrator. Many signs and things thought and said by the narrator made it easier to find evidence on how the bird was imaginary versus it being