The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe Analysis

“Nevermore,” the famous word that directly connects you to a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven is a literary work that has gone down the ages as being a timeless classic Poem that transcends the sense as you dive into this sinister tale. Edgar had a life of hardships that he proved to come out the greater writer writing many poems and stories that are mysterious and prevalent today. The Raven was written in 1845 close to the time his wife at the time Virginia Clemm was being treated for tuberculosis. The raven has many displaced factors that make it seem like Edgar is truly referencing his life throughout the work. The poem takes you through many different feelings as you dwell on the meanings the text could have. This work was closely …show more content…
The name Lenore is what struck me the most peculiar because the name is referenced timelessly but no one by that name existed in reality. The connection I draw towards this meaning is it is in reference to his wife Virginia who had been diagnosed with Tuberculosis and that he is in grievance over her and his feelings she wont be there with him forever. “He is now a creature whose "fiery eyes" have penetrated the speaker 's heart, sending him to feel afresh the loss of Lenore--she will "nevermore" press the velvet lining of the seat he at the moment occupies.”(Dhahir, 6) Sanna Dhahir created a complex analysis to which she connected the emotions the speaker had to directly correlate to how the loss of his wife affected the actions of that gloomy December night. The Raven that perched itself upon the chamber door and it spoke nevermore multiple times but took the speaker awhile to grasp the fact it was possibly his wife to which Sanna states that in his gloomy state he could have been having a remorse feeling causing him to create this hallucination. The word Nevermore is ultimately a reoccurring theme that is bestowed in all his works. The meaning could be multiple things but only your mind can vastly grasp what the black raven is trying to tell the speaker. In the mans gloomy state of mind it is being used as a vessel to which he thinks its is lost love Lenore coming back to tell him nevermore should he feel this way, in a sense his very own psyche is trying to keep his mind and heart from falling apart. The grieving process that the speaker is taken hit him hard and I believe that in this writing is how Edgar explained his true feelings about what it felt like being without his Beloved Virginia. The Gloomy setting and the unhinged