Poetry is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. In the poem,“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, it fortales a man who is greatly haunted by his past, and according to him, is tormented by a raven who one day wandered into his home, and has never left, causing most of the mans misery and sense of doom. Many believe the raven is just a figment of his imaginations, while others believe the raven is in fact real. The raven in Poe’s “The Raven” is real, and though it is real, it did not cause the man’s misery or a sense of doom throughout the story; his own emotions of fear and grief caused himself his own misery. In the poem we learn that the Raven can
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The narrator struggles to let go of his past as he says, “sorrow for the lost Lenore – For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,” (Poe 2). This shows us that he is still grieving over the loss of Lenore, someone he had loved, which contributed to his own misery. The narrator still grieving over the loss of Lenore, constantly ask the Raven questions about her, even though he said before, ““what it utters is its only stock and store,” (Poe 11). This shows us that even though the narrator told himself that the Raven only knew the one word “nevermore’ as it was its “only stock and store”, he still asked it questions regarding Lenore. The response the Raven gave him angered him, but he still continued to ask it questions knowing what it would say, which shows us that he contributed to his own misery. He put himself through that, as he simply could have ignored the Raven, and not asked it questions. Besides his grief, the narrator’s fear contributed to the poem’s sense of doom, as he say, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before,”(Poe 5). This shows us that the narrator causes his own fear, as he was “dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” or thinking about what was in the darkness, that contributed to his fear. It was also late at night as we know it was a “midnight dreary”, so the atmosphere also contributed to his emotion of fear, and the sense of doom in the story. The narrator causes his own misery and the sense of doom in the
The narrator struggles to let go of his past as he says, “sorrow for the lost Lenore – For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,” (Poe 2). This shows us that he is still grieving over the loss of Lenore, someone he had loved, which contributed to his own misery. The narrator still grieving over the loss of Lenore, constantly ask the Raven questions about her, even though he said before, ““what it utters is its only stock and store,” (Poe 11). This shows us that even though the narrator told himself that the Raven only knew the one word “nevermore’ as it was its “only stock and store”, he still asked it questions regarding Lenore. The response the Raven gave him angered him, but he still continued to ask it questions knowing what it would say, which shows us that he contributed to his own misery. He put himself through that, as he simply could have ignored the Raven, and not asked it questions. Besides his grief, the narrator’s fear contributed to the poem’s sense of doom, as he say, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before,”(Poe 5). This shows us that the narrator causes his own fear, as he was “dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” or thinking about what was in the darkness, that contributed to his fear. It was also late at night as we know it was a “midnight dreary”, so the atmosphere also contributed to his emotion of fear, and the sense of doom in the story. The narrator causes his own misery and the sense of doom in the