It’s never easy to lose someone close to you. Great grief is what usually manifests itself in a person after they have lost someone they really cared about and this grief can last for many years depending on how close the person was to you. Grief is such a powerful emotion that it can warp a person beyond recognition to others who were once close to them, cutting all ties they once had with reality. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" due to that warping the speaker begins to slowly lose his mind as he talks with a bird who only knows the single word "Nevermore". The intense grief of losing Lenore causes the speaker to turn into a skeleton of what he once was, leaving him vulnerable to a minuscule threat which leads him to further lose his mind.
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From Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, ““Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee / Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; / Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”” (81- 83). explains that the narrator is asking for a break from his agony, his sorrow for the loss of his loved Lenore by asking for numbing medication to give him a chance to relax and not have to think about all that is going on with himself anymore. This is important due to the fact that now it is known that what is troubling the narrator isn’t only the great grief he has it’s something more. Saying that the speaker is merely grief stricken would be an understatement to his whole character. Even though grief is a very powerful emotion the speaker of the poem was hiding something more, something darker inside of him that kept him from revealing the whole truth of his lost love. Although I don’t believe the narrator simply killed Lenore, I do believe some of his actions may have ultimately lead to her death. For example, not giving her enough attention and in turn making her kill herself from the sadness of not being noticed by him, or him not going with here someplace that would prevent her death had he been there like a dangerous alleyway or a dark street at
From Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, ““Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee / Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; / Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”” (81- 83). explains that the narrator is asking for a break from his agony, his sorrow for the loss of his loved Lenore by asking for numbing medication to give him a chance to relax and not have to think about all that is going on with himself anymore. This is important due to the fact that now it is known that what is troubling the narrator isn’t only the great grief he has it’s something more. Saying that the speaker is merely grief stricken would be an understatement to his whole character. Even though grief is a very powerful emotion the speaker of the poem was hiding something more, something darker inside of him that kept him from revealing the whole truth of his lost love. Although I don’t believe the narrator simply killed Lenore, I do believe some of his actions may have ultimately lead to her death. For example, not giving her enough attention and in turn making her kill herself from the sadness of not being noticed by him, or him not going with here someplace that would prevent her death had he been there like a dangerous alleyway or a dark street at