Annotation In The Raven

The raven is a poem which is a poem that talks a man who is depresse because he lost the love of his life, Lenore. The poem is called The Raven because the protagonist listens to a tapping in his door and when he checks who is in the door, he finds no one. Then he listens to a tapping again but this time it's on the window and when he opens them a raven steps insisde the house, perches in an Athena's statue just above the chamber door. The man becomes curious because he has no idea what is going on, the only thing he has in mind is to ask the bird, what's he doing here? That's what he does.

Edgar Allan Poe was heartbroken when learning that his wife Annabellepast away. In his famous poem, "The Raven", the character's love, Lenore, was dead. The main character was depressed. Depressed people stay inside and write poems. That is what Poe did.

In this poem, Poe is the speaker and he is explaining how strongly he felt towards Annabel Lee. One can characterizes Poe as is devastated but also *does not give up on their love*. For example “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes”. Poe is explaining that whenever the stars come out, he feels Annabel 's eyes on him. As if he know she is not there physically but he feel her there in spirit.

Edgar Allan Poe expresses his depression and alcoholism through the dark stories and horrid poems he writes, in each poem he leaves a lesson is some type of way to live by for the rest of your life. Poe wrote many of great stories and poems. Two great poems by Poe are Raven and The Bells. Raven is a dull story of a man who has lost a loved one named Lenore. He then opens a window to be surprised by a Raven that can only respond to the man’s questions “Nevermore”.

Alfred Noyes apprises his audience about a personable maiden held captive by King George’s men and the significant other in her life in his highly acclaimed narrative poem titled “The Highwayman”. To prevent her lover from returning back to where she was being used as enticement, the young woman shoots herself in the attempt to admonish her love, the Highwayman. The speaker of “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, claims that the love and the admirable aspects of his beloved had encouraged many coveting angels to take her life. The speaker’s everlasting love breaks the boundary between heaven and earth, however, avowing continuous affection. Both authors imply the general topic of love, however they each make their own variations to compose juxtaposing

On a “midnight dreary,” the persona reads in an attempt to forget the passing of “ the rare and radiant maiden … Lenore” when he hears a knock at his door. Although the sound startles him, filling him with “fantastic terrors,” he eventually builds up the courage to answer the door, only to find nothing but darkness outside. As the persona stares “deep into … [the] darkness,” he starts “wondering, fearing, / [d]oubting, [and] dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream” before whispering the name of his lost love Lenore. Many of the words the speaker uses have negative connotations, which contribute to a dark, foreboding mood. For example, “darkness” implies mystery, obscurity and the presence of evil, while “fearing” and “[d]oubting” suggest insecurity and a lack of confidence.

With his wife gone he asks himself many questions about her as he griefs for the loss of Lenore’s life. One questions many people who lose someone in their life may be, are they with the angels, did they find the light, or did they fall from the sky into the depths of Hell? The narrator is filled with many of these questions so he goes to read, “curious volume of forgotten lore” (2). The raven has not shown its face nor has it been heard of, however, the questions float all around the vicinity of the narrator’s house. The narrator is questioning himself as he hears a rapping

In the Poem the Raven the narrator use reption to affect how the reader sees the world of Poe. “ Then the bird said “Nevermore”... “Of Never-Nevermore”... Meant in the croaking Nevermore.” At the end of most stanza in the text he repeat the phrase nevermore. This relates to the theme of the text and the mood as it shows the darkness of the world in how he will never see his wife again. The reader's from this can see the theme of Poe’s works as they all result around darkness and death in the

This stanza says what it means. That there 's a bird, specifically a raven, in the living room with fiery eyes staring at the narrator and all he can think about is his lost love. As we move along in the poem we get to stanza 14 were we see the narrator sensing the arrival of angels who burn incense. He suspects the raven 's purpose is to help the narrator forget about his sorrows. He asks to drink a magic potion for that purpose.

In the sixth poem, the speaker declares, that he is henceforth dead to all human endeavour. He only wants to conjure the beloved to his mind and imagine new conversations with her. Nothing else matters to him, and he cries when the images from his dreams disappear in the cold morning. This poem is again addressed to the beloved or the speaker’s dream image of her. The emotional contrasts in the text and the different dynamics and textures in the music facilitate the shaping of this song.