Loneliness of the Heart
Have you ever felt so at loss for happiness that all you can think about is your unhappiness? Well, then this is the poem for you. Everyone goes through hardships, such as grief for losing someone, like how our narrator is at a loss of words because he has recently been released of his love Lenore. He is overcome with desolation that he is up “upon a midnight” (1) while feeling “weak and weary” (1). Then there is someone (or rather something) at the door. The raven comes into the picture “sitting lonely” (55) on the bedpost. You soon realise that our narrator isn’t in the mood for much of his repeating nonsense. The bird will not answer any of his questions about Lenore or anything else. All he says in response to the …show more content…
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the image of the raven symbolizes the complete opposite of what many writers often use birds to symbolize, the raven represents the narrator's pain, sorrow, grief, and absence of happiness and hope which is what the narrator is feeling at …show more content…
The bird represents our narrator’s grief, agony, and bad fortune of losing his love Lenore. The narrator isn’t in the right state of mind, him admitting it himself with saying that he is feeling “weak and weary” (1). Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Raven” was vastly popular when it came out and still is taught in many school curriculums today, and there is no thought as to why. It’s something that all people can connect with, lose. Every single homosapien has or will experience lose in their lifetime, it’s something that is inevitable to be apart of. The incredible poem with the raven being this thing that has been morphed from grief itself and physicalized is something that can comfort us all. To know that another person has been where I have been before helps me cope with the thought that others feel it sometimes too. It can help anyone that has gone through this before, and show someone who hasn’t what it will be like for when it does happen. That’s why the poem is still taught and was so
Have you ever felt so at loss for happiness that all you can think about is your unhappiness? Well, then this is the poem for you. Everyone goes through hardships, such as grief for losing someone, like how our narrator is at a loss of words because he has recently been released of his love Lenore. He is overcome with desolation that he is up “upon a midnight” (1) while feeling “weak and weary” (1). Then there is someone (or rather something) at the door. The raven comes into the picture “sitting lonely” (55) on the bedpost. You soon realise that our narrator isn’t in the mood for much of his repeating nonsense. The bird will not answer any of his questions about Lenore or anything else. All he says in response to the …show more content…
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the image of the raven symbolizes the complete opposite of what many writers often use birds to symbolize, the raven represents the narrator's pain, sorrow, grief, and absence of happiness and hope which is what the narrator is feeling at …show more content…
The bird represents our narrator’s grief, agony, and bad fortune of losing his love Lenore. The narrator isn’t in the right state of mind, him admitting it himself with saying that he is feeling “weak and weary” (1). Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Raven” was vastly popular when it came out and still is taught in many school curriculums today, and there is no thought as to why. It’s something that all people can connect with, lose. Every single homosapien has or will experience lose in their lifetime, it’s something that is inevitable to be apart of. The incredible poem with the raven being this thing that has been morphed from grief itself and physicalized is something that can comfort us all. To know that another person has been where I have been before helps me cope with the thought that others feel it sometimes too. It can help anyone that has gone through this before, and show someone who hasn’t what it will be like for when it does happen. That’s why the poem is still taught and was so