The Raven is a narrative poem written by author Edgar Allan Poe which is a story of an unnamed narrator who is in grief and trying to forget his lost Lenore. The scene in the poem begins in December when he hears a from a strange sound while he is half awake at midnight. The poem is alienated into three parts where the speaker undergoes from different situations. In the poem, the narrator was reading to end his depression when he perceives a sound continuously. He doubts himself whether he is dreaming or not as he starts imagining a whisper with sound ‘Lenore’. The narrator gets afraid of that sound, but later on, being brave, he opens his chamber door. Poe creates a suspense in the first part of the poem by delaying the fact of who the visitor
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From the beginning of the poem the narrator tries to distract himself to think about his beloved. He is weak and weary as he loses Lenore, whose relation to the narrator is disclosed, so he is trying to overcome from the incident. Furthermore, the term like ‘nothing more’ is used to show the speaker’s situation that he is going through and there is nothing more left for his happiness. He reads books day and night to distract himself from the sorrow. He’s scared even by hearing his own heartbeats. When he starts hearing the rapping and tapping sound he starts his imagination as someone is around him. The speaker’s wants to be distracted from his imagination that he has of his Lenore. As narrator speaks, “sorrow of lost Lenore” (10), he confesses that he is being affected with the grief. In addition, the narrator states, “Eagerly I wished the morrow” (9), he wishes for tomorrow and desires his days to go quicker as he do not seem to enjoy his days. In this way, depression is shown as the first mental state of the …show more content…
When he meets the raven at his chamber door he starts feeling blissful. The looks of the raven was serious and he feels amazed on how a bird can look this serious. He observes the raven meticulously and notices its calmness and absence of crest, which encourages him to question his name. When raven replies, “Nevermore’ for the first time he is absolutely astonished seeing a bird speaking. As his state of mind disremembers depression, he starts predicting further about the raven. As narrator speaks, “Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster” (63), he makes his prediction on word ‘Nevermore’ and considers that he can speak that term from his previous owner. The word ‘Nevermore’ plays a significant role as it takes the poem through diverse situations. At first, the word is the answer to the raven’s name, then it becomes the reply to the narrator’s thinking, “he will leave me” (59), but quotes the raven ‘Nevermore’. In each ‘Nevermore’ the narrator forgets his grief as he tries to have conversation with the raven. Moreover, he starts imagining that he can hold his Lenore in near future, but, the raven speaks ‘Nevermore’. As the air changes its smell, he assumes the raven is an angel who is there to answer his questions but he quotes nevermore. Through the conversation of the narrator and the raven, the second mental state is described where he forgets about his
From the beginning of the poem the narrator tries to distract himself to think about his beloved. He is weak and weary as he loses Lenore, whose relation to the narrator is disclosed, so he is trying to overcome from the incident. Furthermore, the term like ‘nothing more’ is used to show the speaker’s situation that he is going through and there is nothing more left for his happiness. He reads books day and night to distract himself from the sorrow. He’s scared even by hearing his own heartbeats. When he starts hearing the rapping and tapping sound he starts his imagination as someone is around him. The speaker’s wants to be distracted from his imagination that he has of his Lenore. As narrator speaks, “sorrow of lost Lenore” (10), he confesses that he is being affected with the grief. In addition, the narrator states, “Eagerly I wished the morrow” (9), he wishes for tomorrow and desires his days to go quicker as he do not seem to enjoy his days. In this way, depression is shown as the first mental state of the …show more content…
When he meets the raven at his chamber door he starts feeling blissful. The looks of the raven was serious and he feels amazed on how a bird can look this serious. He observes the raven meticulously and notices its calmness and absence of crest, which encourages him to question his name. When raven replies, “Nevermore’ for the first time he is absolutely astonished seeing a bird speaking. As his state of mind disremembers depression, he starts predicting further about the raven. As narrator speaks, “Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster” (63), he makes his prediction on word ‘Nevermore’ and considers that he can speak that term from his previous owner. The word ‘Nevermore’ plays a significant role as it takes the poem through diverse situations. At first, the word is the answer to the raven’s name, then it becomes the reply to the narrator’s thinking, “he will leave me” (59), but quotes the raven ‘Nevermore’. In each ‘Nevermore’ the narrator forgets his grief as he tries to have conversation with the raven. Moreover, he starts imagining that he can hold his Lenore in near future, but, the raven speaks ‘Nevermore’. As the air changes its smell, he assumes the raven is an angel who is there to answer his questions but he quotes nevermore. Through the conversation of the narrator and the raven, the second mental state is described where he forgets about his