Loss Of Death In Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

“The Raven” by Edgar Poe is written with the analogy of the mind, especially the conscious and subconscious attitude of the mind. The poem is interesting in the sense that the readers could argue over the events in the poem are not happening to the narrator himself, but by preference, within him, and especially within is mind. The poem begins with a dark emphasis “…midnight dreary...” (Poe), which postures the famous stage of Edgar Poe in The Raven.

Death is a very dramatic period in a person’s life, but the loss of a wife can drive a man to depression or insanity. In the poem, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, it talks about a unnamed man that is filled with heartbreak and sorrow as he grieves over the loss of his beloved wife named Lenore. Weary and weak; reading a book to get the thought of his lost love off his mind and nearly falling asleep. There came a tapping on his door, but he didn’t care much for it and just ignored it. However the tapping continued, and he couldn’t ignore the tapping no more. He opened the door, but there was nothing but darkness. He called out for “Lenore?” And an echo exclaimed, “Lenore!” He opened the shutter and in come a Raven that perched upon a bust of

Edgar Allen Poe is obviously a well-known author who know how to grab the reader’s attention with a crazy twists and tones in a matter of second. His poem “The Raven” uses negative connotative words in his writing to portray a dreary, agitated, and twisted tone. The use of those words shows how he feels throughout his own story. The words that are used also decide how the reader feel in the situation.

The frightening ballad, “The Raven”, by Edgar Allen Poe embeds sorrow throughout the storyline. A depressed man in his house encounters a raven. The raven talks to him about how his love has died, causing the man to be full of sorrow and regret. The suspenseful poem incorporates language and sound devices such as; alliteration, assonance, and end rhyme to support this mood.

The theme of grief exists as a significant theme in Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative poem, The Raven. The source of grief comes from the narrator’s emotions toward the death of his loved one. The dark and creepy atmosphere enhances the theme of grief and helps the audience to feel the narrator’s grief. The poem starts “upon a midnight dreary” (456), and the narrator already feels “weak and weary” (456). This sets up a gloomy atmosphere and gives the audience an idea that the poem will be mournful. As the poem progress, the narrator claims, “all my soul within me burning” (457), and it proves that the narrator suffers the grief from something that he is deeply attached to. The narrator tells the audience how badly the event affects him that

Grief of the loss of a loved one can make you go crazy. This is evident in “The Raven” first in this quote “From the books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore.” This is showing that he misses his wife Lenore and that he is also grieving the loss. This theme is also evident in this quote “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, ”Lenore!” This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, ”Lenore!” - Merely this, and nothing more.” This quote show that when he was sitting in silence he was thinking about his wife. Also he is grieving the loss because he misses her so much. These are examples of how this theme is in “The Raven.”

“The Raven” takes on a dejected tone as it correlates death with grief, shying away from any hope of optimism. It begins with the sentence “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” (Poe line 1). This sets up the story for being

I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. Edgar Allen Poe is a writer from the 1800. This family had suffered from tuberculosis. In Poe’s short stories the narrator has to solve a problem he went about it the wrong way, and people die, and the narrator gets caught. In Poe’s short stories the theme of the stories is your actions have consenquence.

In the short story, “Blood Knots” grief is revealed in different ways. In the beginning of the story the main character is described as calm and laid back. This gives the reader the sense that she does not care for her father’s death and she announces, “I am still waiting for my own emotion to surface in what I am anticipating will be a sense of overwhelming, loss”(Burton 33). The main character is in great shock that even she cannot describe it. It gives the reader the sense that the main character may be experiencing some depression because as it is stated she is waiting for her feelings to surface, and she might be feeling down that she is not reacting as normal people should be. She is convincing herself that she is not worthy and she doesn’t love her father, even though on the inside she loves him . The main character needs to realize that she is taking it in her own way. Furthermore, the second grief in the story is the

melancholy is a direct result of the narrator’s unstable mental condition. The sense we get in fact

“You remember what you want to forget and you forget what you want to remember,” (McCarthy 12). With most aspects of life, the horrendous moments are the times that no one can erase. This applied to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Towards the end of the novel when the son loses his father proves to be the most indelible moment with the assistance of the feelings experienced during that part. The son encounters a variety of emotions including loneliness, loss and hope. In enduring these complex emotions, this section was the most remarkable part.

How would an individual remain sane when a Raven mentally torments him or her? In “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator reaches insanity, and is afflicted by the presence of the bird. Poe’s poem brilliantly depicts the decay of a man’s mental state, after the death of his beloved Lenore, and ventures into his condition as the Raven torments him. Poe also emphasizes the narrator’s distress and mental instability throughout the poem through the use of metaphors and diction.

Grief is defined as the neuropsychobiological response to any kind of significant loss, with elements both typical and unique to each individual or situation. The response is mostly associated with degrees of suffering, at times intense or even unbearable, and of widely variable duration. Grief is an individual or a larger group of individuals’ event where they are thrown out of equilibrium through changes brought on by loss.

Let’s start by looking at the protagonist of the poem who illustrates a lot of psychoanalytical issues in his ordeal with the raven. From the start of the poem to the end, the reader can recognize and identify many defenses. Some of them include selective memory, selective deception, selective perception, denial and displacement especially towards the end. The most significant issue presented in the poem is the fear of being abandoned. Let me delve deeper into the subject.

For Poe, this genre might have offered him the chance to write about his sorrows, since, at the time The Raven was written according to Joy Lanzendorfer of Mental Floss6, his wife was deathly ill, he had already lost many to tuberculosis and he must have known, in his bosom’s core, that he was to sadly let another one of his beloved go. This is where both the genre and a dark, ebony omen come into play. It can be said that the gothic genre allows us to discuss quite painful subjects through use of copious symbols and parallels and that we can see the effects of such heartbreaking things on the human mind, that we can gradually follow the decline, the decay one might go through after the traumatising event of losing someone close to oneself. The raven, further, is of importance for it, according to Poe, symbolised “mournful and never-ending remembrance.”7, the type we see in the poem when the bird repeats ‘nevermore’. The protagonist dreads the word for it reminds him of how he is incapable of perhaps ever seeing his dear Lenore ever again and how he is unable to ever forget her, as she has left her mark, like our beloved do on us, on his