The mind can be a beautiful thing, but when bent and twisted so much, it can snap in two and cause insanity amongst an individual. Yet every person has something that could trigger the loss of sanity. One’s sanity could be lost due to the lack of control in their lives. Another’s trigger might be the loss of a person who bore a great significance to them such as their parents, friends, or even spouses. A person’s insanity may also be triggered by a traumatic event that has crippled their body and mind. Or maybe, insanity is triggered out of pure envy for the material belongings or lifestyle of someone who is more fortunate than them. Perhaps it is caused by an unhealthy obsession of an activity that they love to engage in or to rid the world of someone they hate.
In both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” the concept of insanity is explored in a clear context as the mental state of Aunt Jennifer and the Anonymous main character within their respective poems. Their …show more content…
“The Raven”, on the other hand, has an entirely grim setting, as there are no signs of joy within. Yet the situations that have led to this state are entirely different between the anonymous speaker and Aunt Jennifer. In Aunt Jennifer’s case she seems to be holding the burden of her troubled marriage as her hands were weakening as she sows the panel of tigers prancing about. The Anonymous speaker’s case is slightly different as he holds the weight that has emerged from his lost love Lenore. As Aunt Jennifer’s sanity was almost non-existent in the entirety Rich’s poem, the speaker of the Raven is getting closer to the verge of losing his sanity as the poem progresses. Despite the situation the poems were set on, the main characters both seem to have a tragic end as both of them had died at the epilogue of each
In both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” the concept of insanity is explored in a clear context as the mental state of Aunt Jennifer and the Anonymous main character within their respective poems. Their …show more content…
“The Raven”, on the other hand, has an entirely grim setting, as there are no signs of joy within. Yet the situations that have led to this state are entirely different between the anonymous speaker and Aunt Jennifer. In Aunt Jennifer’s case she seems to be holding the burden of her troubled marriage as her hands were weakening as she sows the panel of tigers prancing about. The Anonymous speaker’s case is slightly different as he holds the weight that has emerged from his lost love Lenore. As Aunt Jennifer’s sanity was almost non-existent in the entirety Rich’s poem, the speaker of the Raven is getting closer to the verge of losing his sanity as the poem progresses. Despite the situation the poems were set on, the main characters both seem to have a tragic end as both of them had died at the epilogue of each