Pathos relates to emotional appeal and it is present throughout the whole poem to invoke sympathy from an audience …show more content…
In a way, he wrote this poem for the people who are in his situation that have suffered from the loss of loved ones. The raven repeats the word "nevermore" multiple times, which represents the feeling of not being able to get something out of your head. What he is doing there is trying to relate to the audience because when something that tragic happens, it affects you mentally to the point where it haunts you. Logos begins to apply here because it’s logical that it is not easy to get over the fact that you lost someone of great meaning to you. When you lose someone, in the author’s case, his mother and wife, your state of mind begins to change from the sorrow you feel, and as for him, he began going a little insane in that point of his life where he wrote this