Alone With The Raven Analysis

Alone With the Raven
Think of a cold winter night where one is all alone, nothing but the beat of a heart and the cricks and cracks of the walls around. Imagine having just lost the love of your life, and all you can think about is the memories and laughter you once shared with that person, remembering the good times and the bad times. Remembering what you could have done better. Imagine having no one to talk to, and being alone in a cold dark room with nothing but your thoughts wishing you could have that one person back with you. As these thoughts build up one begins to obsesses with the idea of that person coming back, but deep inside they will never return. Madness slowly starts to overcome every thought, and the pain becomes worse to deal …show more content…
As he is reading a sudden tap gets his attention, he says “Tis some visitor, tapping at my chamber door.” He decides to wait until tomorrow to answer as he deals with the pain of losing his love Lenore. As he sits he hears another tap at his chamber door, he whispers Lenore as he hopes to see Lenore return to him, but only the echo of his own words are heard. This relates to Edgar Allen Poe as he to lost the love of his life Virginia to tuberculosis Having lost the love of his life had a lasting effect on Poe as he continued throughout his life. It was said that Poe was saddened for many months after the death of his wife, and a friend of his said “the loss of his wife was a sad blow to him. He did not seem to care, after she was gone, whether he lived an hour, a day, a week or a year; she was his all." In his poem “The Raven” Lenore represents his wife Virginia, and the man slowly seeping into madness is himself as he and the narrator can not handle the loss of their loves. As Poe continued through life, he dealt with a drinking problem that affected him, but states that alcohol “was a cure to his own sickness” that he had gotten over the death of his wife. I believe that in the poem the raven itself represents his own alcohol problem. In the story the raven is able to bring out great emotion in the narrator by saying only one word “Nevermore”, the raven I believe is trying to remind the …show more content…
While there could be more than one meaning to it, I myself found that Poe greatly related this story to his own life and the struggles he went through. The narrator represents him greatly, and a lot of characteristics are very similar to him as they both show pain and suffering in the story and in real life. The sorrow seems to really stick out amongst the narrator as he weeps for lost love as did Poe when he lost his wife Virginia. While the story may have many meanings to it, i believe this is the one that sticks out the most to me. I believe that Poe went through a great tragedy in losing his wife, and I feel he uses those experiences in his poetry to tell his readers how he truly