“‘Wretch,’ I cried… Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” (The Raven, 81- 84). When you lose someone, you feel hopeless, and sometimes, people would do anything to get rid of the pain. In the process, they might lose their sanity. Edgar Allan Poe’s life was very tragic, and it seemed that death followed him, and stole the ones he loved. Hope and death are exactly what Poe writes about in “The Raven” and “Lenore”. Emotions and events that many people have to deal with in their lives, but he handles them differently in both poems. Poe wrote about hope and death, as it seemed to be the only thing he knew.
Poe writes of hope in very different ways. In “Lenore”, Poe has hope to one day see Lenore in heaven. In “The Raven”, however, he first stands by that
Poe writes of hope in very different ways. In “Lenore”, Poe has hope to one day see Lenore in heaven. In “The Raven”, however, he first stands by that