Motif In The Raven

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," the narrator is mourning and coping with the loss of his love, Elenore. In the midst of drifting into sleep, the narrator is awoken by a sound coming from the other side of his chamber door. Upon opening it, the narrator is befuddled to see nothing before him and no evidence as to where the sounds came from. Again he hears the noise, this time coming from the window. As he opens it, in swoops a large raven that perches upon a bust that looms over the chamber door. As the narrator frantically attempts to try to rationalize what is taking place, he asks the uninvited creature a series of question all to which the bird replies "nevermore."

Within Poe's text, I found that the most prominent motif that is developed