Edgar Allen Poe's Poem, The Raven

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe has a lot of different feels about it. The main idea of the story is about a man whose love of his life died and he believes is still alive. One key aspect is that Poe uses is a raven as a symbol to show him that she is gone also as a symbol of his grief, anger, sorrow, hope and a small sign of joy about the whole situation. The beginning of the poem he his sitting and reading and out of nowhere someone knocked on his door but while he was getting up to go get it he started thinking of Lenore the love of his life (“I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore”line 9-10). When he goes to open the door, he opened the door to darkness and thought he heard the whisper of Lenore; so he whispers back “Lenore.”

While the perception of the reader remains the same, the narrator’s perception of the bird becomes more jumbled and insane when he starts asking questions like “is there balm in Gilead? (line 89)”. His troubled mind seeks for relief from the bird . Also he is asks if there is a balm that can heal anything, and if he will ever be able to embrace Lenore again. When relief of grief doesn’t come the image of the bird changes to a prophet possibly sent from the devil.

To such dreadful thoughts, Ichabod suddenly touched his head, just to make sure that everything was in its right place. At that point he decided that he would be brave, for once: he would stand up and face his destiny with honor. But before all this, he would light a candle. He remained silent, breathing as slowly as he could, in the half light, feeling utterly alone and horribly confused. The Headless Horseman might have been very near, maybe in the same dark room as him.

Considered heaven-sent at first, the raven continues to say a single word, “nevermore.” This creates a sense of foreboding and desperation, as the narrator continues to grieve over Lenore. The speaker has a few main emotions in this section, those being frustration, fear, and depression and longing. The frustration comes from the narrator’s constant questioning of the bird revealing nothing but a singular word: nevermore. Fear of the bird is to be expected, as people fear anything that is unknown.

How does the speaker react to this word. Starting off, the Raven repeating “Nevermore” means to me that the Raven is eating away at the narrator's soul. In the text it states “This I sat engaged in guessing… To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core”(Poe 13). Adding on, I think the narrator is not taking it so well.

The oppression is binding the bird to its cage while the bird hopes and prays that someone will hear him so that he can leave this maiming tyranny. In addition in “Caged Bird” the bird is singing with mighty voice that was conceived by the rage that the bird felt toward the oppression that was trapping it. The tune that the bird sings is described as, “The caged bird sings,/ with a fearful trill,/ of things unknown”(Angelou, 30-32). The bird is illustrating the anger that it felt, by fighting the tyranny that he is facing. The tyranny is holding him down and the rage that the bird feels from this pain is what the bird symbolizes.

Love is Difficult “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is filled with many mixed emotions and lots of different themes. Although there are many different themes that readers can interpret, one that really stands out is that love is difficult. This theme is supported when Hermia 's father tries to tear Hermia and Lysander apart and they decide the best decision is to run away together. Also Oberon and Titania can 't stand each other and always get into arguments. The love potion throughout the play messed up Titania and Oberon’s true love.

This is indeed proven in the story, as the narrator gets heavily anxious from thinking he is hearing

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.

The readers can sense that Havisham is extremely justified in her feelings and she blames her ex-fiance entirely for this. Her lover was the one who made her who she is now; she is isolated, angry, and even mad. Ever since the day of their scheduled marriage, Havisham believes that love is like a “red balloon” bursting - love does not last forever. Love is fragile. Love is nothing but an illusion.

However, according to Elizabeth Bird’s review, even evoking a strong feeling is missing in Cooper’s narrative, “when Little Hawk returns to his village, you feel mildly bad for him but hardly crushed. You didn’t know these people […] they didn’t feel enough like people to you. So where’s the outrage? Where’s the anger?”. Historical representations aside, the lack of appropriate emotion and the lack of humanity in the characters renders them two-dimensional.

The world of memories, a world that I have been thrown in, arid, stale. Sick and twisted world set ablaze in the fire of silence. A single ray of hope draws in on me every night, coming only as glimpses and flashes, of a being, a person, never lasts much though. Mostly I end up burnt out, shivering at the lullaby of crashing waves, the only song in this world, the flickering of it 's darkness makes up most of my nights, I fear it, and at the same time I think of it as my only salvation, a requiem that keeps me from losing

In John Steinbeck’s dynamic novel Of Mice and Men, the challenged Lennie’s harmless intentions results in heinous acts due to his decline in mentality and inability to control his own immense strength. In the beginning, Lennie’s simple love of soft things causes inconsequential incidents that quickly escalate into more severe offenses as the story progresses. By the end of the novel, Lennie’s uncontrollable strength and mental deficits leads him to commit unintended manslaughter. Stories of Lennie’s childhood show that from the beginning Lennie has enjoyed petting soft things but becomes hindered by his unmanageable physical power and child-like mind.

Fear is a theme that is found throughout the entire book. In the beginning one of the first signs of fear among the boys is seen when a littlun brings up the idea of a beast on the island. Though the boys laugh it off, fear of the unknown is beginning to settle in as the author states, “Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees. The boys felt it and stirred restlessly.”(36) Even though there is no evidence to support the idea of a beast, simply the fear of a beast or something unknown to them on the island causes them to become scared.

The title of this poem is called The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. This poem was published in 1845 and is considered to be a Romantic novel. The Raven is about a person who finds a raven, which symbolizes death, at his door. The person starts questioning the raven about his lost love Lenore. The poem displays a melancholy and lonely sound throughout.