A Surcease of Sorrow
Everyone dislikes heartfelt pain. Everyone, at one time or another, has attempted to hide from the pain of something. Something not everyone has experienced, however, is when your mind tries to help you face the pain so that it is not with you forever. In Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem, “The Raven”, the main character, the narrator, is in pain over the loss of his love, Lenore. In an attempt to escape the grip this despair, the narrator finds himself confronted with a unique and strange visitor, the raven. As he communicates with the raven, he finds that he is coming further and further to the unwanted realization that is expounded upon at the very end. I believe that it is possible that the raven is a symbol of a hallucination …show more content…
And when I thought about this, I realized that it reminded me of a different story, The Wizard of Oz. In the Wizard of Oz the main character, Dorothy, is dealing with a crisis involving her dog, family, and neighbor and she doesn’t know how to best handle herself and the crisis. Then, a tornado happens in her town and she ends up being transported to the Land of Oz after bumping her head. In the land of Oz, she faces many hard trials and learns a moral lesson that helps her in her real life when she awakens from the dream. Using this method, the tool used in The Wizard of Oz is applicable to The Raven. I believe that what happens to the narrator and the meeting of the actual raven is a dream created by the conscious mind to help the narrator overcome denial so that he could heal from the
Everyone dislikes heartfelt pain. Everyone, at one time or another, has attempted to hide from the pain of something. Something not everyone has experienced, however, is when your mind tries to help you face the pain so that it is not with you forever. In Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem, “The Raven”, the main character, the narrator, is in pain over the loss of his love, Lenore. In an attempt to escape the grip this despair, the narrator finds himself confronted with a unique and strange visitor, the raven. As he communicates with the raven, he finds that he is coming further and further to the unwanted realization that is expounded upon at the very end. I believe that it is possible that the raven is a symbol of a hallucination …show more content…
And when I thought about this, I realized that it reminded me of a different story, The Wizard of Oz. In the Wizard of Oz the main character, Dorothy, is dealing with a crisis involving her dog, family, and neighbor and she doesn’t know how to best handle herself and the crisis. Then, a tornado happens in her town and she ends up being transported to the Land of Oz after bumping her head. In the land of Oz, she faces many hard trials and learns a moral lesson that helps her in her real life when she awakens from the dream. Using this method, the tool used in The Wizard of Oz is applicable to The Raven. I believe that what happens to the narrator and the meeting of the actual raven is a dream created by the conscious mind to help the narrator overcome denial so that he could heal from the