Lenore Alternate Ending Essay

Oh, how I have missed my beloved Lenore. I grieve each day without her heavenly smile to rejoice me. I yearn for Lenore. It becomes tedious to try and erase her image from my mind. The ever-growing insensitive agony has made sleeping awfully arduous to do. Every night I struggle to close my eyes; praying for the night I might ease my restless brain. A tremor of uncertainty floods me as the thought of death following me everywhere enters my brain; the idea of it retracing my steps sends a shiver down my spine. I stare at the embers of the dying fire, my mind wandering back to the image of Lenore’s exquisitely radiant face.
Books of death, tragedy, remorse and sorrow accumulate my chamber, setting a dark mood. Meanwhile, I stay staring

Respite, and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore; imbibble and forget this lost Lenore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
“Prophet!” said I, “prophet or thing of evil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, on this haunted house.Tell me truly, I implore is there balm in Gilead? tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
" By thy Heaven above us, by that God we both adore, tell this soul with sorrow, if, within the distant Aidenn, it knew a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
"That word caused our partying, bird or beast!" I shrieked, "Get back to the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of every lie thy told! Leave my loneliness unbroken! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
I awakened, screaming and screeching the word “Nevermore!”
“Are you alright, my love?” asked Lenore with confusion and concern in her eyes.
“Lenore! You have returned to me! My prayers were answered,” I said.
“I never went anywhere, I have been here next to you the whole time. It seems that the nightmare you had tormented you, my love.” She