Analysis Of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe, is a classic American poem. It has also turned into a pop culture phenomenon. The main idea of the poem is how the narrator is so in love, so obsessed, with Lenore that it drives him crazy to think that she could be dying. He resorts to anything to help him get through the rough times. Throughout the poem, the narrator goes through some very strong feelings and emotions. Some of the emotions he goes in and out of is love, hate, sorrow, happiness, sadness, gloomy, lucky, thankful, and the last one which is very strong, which is craziness. In the poem the narrator uses a lot of techniques to foreshadow events in the future. He is also able to use objects to represent his feelings and emotions, which helps you …show more content…
He believes that God brought the raven to him as a messenger to bring him a drink to let him get rid of his sorrow and stop his thinking of his wife. Then again the narrator changes from Lenore to the bird, therefore making him start to lose his mind. He starts to believe the bird is a demon, and goes crazy. Then asking for anything to help his sorrow and the bird replies “nevermore.” The narrator asking if his wife is an angle meaning, if she is in heaven or has died. The Ravens response, “nevermore.” This now makes him wonder if the person he is love with, obsessed with is in hell not heaven. Causing the narrator to go crazy. Now screaming, yelling, get out and i never want to see you again. Wanting no evidence or trace of this bird. Now this bird that once cause happiness and joy. Turning into making his happiness to never be the same and always feeling sad and …show more content…
With an always feeling of sorrow and sadness. The narrator and poe were both very crazy and insane. They were also so deeply in love with there lives. So inlove it could easily be considered obsessed. There were also many objects that symbolized Poe’s life. From happy thing to sad things. A major one to the narrator was the Raven. The Raven represented so much in the poem. It represented painful memories, death, fear, soul, sorrow, hardship, or even just a bird. This is where this bird could be interpreted into many different things. Such as all that sorrow, death, and painful memories. However, it could also be interpreted into just being a normal every day bird. After all it could have just been the average raven. Or maybe just a trained raven to say “nevermore.” This is where it is the reader 's opinion. Unfortunately we will never actually know for