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    The man had been calm and even excited talking to the bird, up until the man started asking questions about Lenore and if he would heal from his experience. When the bird stated his conventional response of “nevermore” to these deep and hopeful questions, however, the man loses his sanity, exclaiming, “Be that word our sign of parting bird… Take thy beak from…

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    became famous. The Raven is a very dark and macabre poem. In this poem, the woman is named Lenore. There are speculations that Lenore might be his wife or mother. Virginia was dying in the next room while Poe was writing this. The speaker was very attached to Lenore. The poem explains how it was a dark December evening and the speaker was trying to distract himself by the lost of his loved one, Lenore. All of a sudden, he heard a noise and someone was knocking on his door. He asked for pardon…

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and editor who wrote short stories and poems full of mystery, horrifying, sad, and disturbing content. A lot of his stories also involved death, mainly on beautiful women. He wrote some poems based on his life full of sadness and about people he knew who died throughout his life. His two main stories based on sadness and grief over a death are “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”. Poe uses lost love in “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven” to prove that death is difficult…

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    death of his love, Lenore. Based on context words, the main character is a chaotic man. The character heard a mysterious tapping sound, he checked the door of his chamber, nothing there. Then, the man checked the window to decipher this mysterious noise, when in flew a raven and perched itself atop of the bust of Pallas. The raven simply stated one simple word, nevermore. The character began getting angry with the ebony bird, asking for death and for relief of the lost Lenore. Edgar Allan Poe’s…

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    is in grief and trying to forget his lost Lenore. The scene in the poem begins in December when he hears a from a strange sound while he is half awake at midnight. The poem is alienated into three parts where the speaker undergoes from different situations. In the poem, the narrator was reading to end his depression when he perceives a sound continuously. He doubts himself whether he is dreaming or not as he starts imagining a whisper with sound ‘Lenore’. The narrator gets afraid of that sound,…

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    Poe's ¨ The Raven¨ Lenore,the narrator's love, is dead and he takes grief to an extreme. The story starts off by a man sitting in a room half asleep trying to forget about his lost love Lenore. Then all of a sudden a knock began to resonate throughout the room. He began to hear a whisper and thought it was Lenore. A raven then comes in the room from a window. The man was in awe and asked the raven questions, the raven then answered with ¨Nevermore¨. The narrator's deep grief for Lenore's death…

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    shore is what many believe to be the raven. With the raven being a symbol of good and of evil in many different cultures it undoubtedly has its symbol of evil in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”. With the narrator, a man of grief for the loss of his wife Lenore, and the raven, a bird that speaks of the word nevermore. As we begin to see in “The Raven”, the bird represents all the narrator’s unanswered questions. With the loss of a family member, everyone shows grief and with comes the questioning…

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    Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” is very well known. The word “nevermore” is used throughout the poem. We first see “Nevermore” when the narrator asked the raven his name, the birds first and only word throughout the poem is “nevermore.” Answering “nevermore” I believe this is an augury of fate. The man continues to ask the Raven questions, it continues the answer only “nevermore.” In the beginning of the poem the narrator seems somewhat amused by this bird and curious why he is there, as the…

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    Response To The Raven

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    loss of his lover (Lenore) and in an amplified responsive state. The storyteller of the poem is very isolated as a result of his loss, and Finds Company in a raven he worries will disappear in the morning. Throughout this story, you can vividly picture in the speaker and the mindset he is in. Quotes like “Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore Nameless here…

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    randomly think of a raven. At this time in this speakers life, he was beyond depressed maybe even going crazy, because the love of his life Lenore had passed. The speaker believed someone was knocking on his door, but when he went to look and see who the visitor was late at night it turned out there was no one there. When he was standing at the door Lenore was said but not by him, even though I believe he is too delusional to recall is he said that…

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