The Metaphor In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

One of Edgar Allen Poe’s poems, “ The Raven” has a very dark reflection on death, hope, and the lost of his beloved, Lenore. As the narrator recites the poem you can feel his emotion as they intensifies throughout the poem, especially with the raven that shows up at his window. He tries to forget about his unhappiness and sorrow by reading variety old books, which turns out to be no help. A raven shows up and intrudes on his loneliness; nevertheless the raven is representing evil and death. The narrator is attempting to motivate you to see the raven as his own misery and his far approaching morality. There are many ways for you to see the raven in as a metaphor for grief inside “The Raven” by the use of his constant appearance and statement of “ Nevermore.” The raven is used as a metaphor throughout this poem multiple times making him more worrisome. As the raven …show more content…
That his beloved will not be coming back and that he needs to move on. With the raven constantly saying “Nevermore” thought out the poem. It seems as if the raven is saying that he will never be over losing his Lenore. He will be forever alone, and never stop being depressed with life. “And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting (Poe, 691, 103)” The raven is used as a metaphor to show the grief that the man is feeling and how it will continue to stay with him. “Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.””(Poe, 690-691,99-102) This quote shows that the man notices his grief and that the raven is a reminder for what he is feeling. The word “nevermore” is used as a metaphor to remind the man of the grief that he is feeling. It shows the audience that the man cannot escape the grief that he is feeling for his