The poem, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man who has lost his love. He sits in his house while collecting a fire and grieves over his lost love. Her name was Lenore and while he tries to sit in silence and read a book, he keeps hearing a tapping noise. This noise greatly annoys him and he tries to go up to see what it is. He opens the door to where he hears the tapping and he doesnt see anything but darkness. He soon busts open the shutters and he sees the Greek Goddess Pallas or Athena who is the Goddess of wisdom. He starts telling her things and trying to ask her questions such as "what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore" and all she would say is "nevermore" to anything that he said. Then the raven responds to his question about whether or not he will ever see his love again and the raven tells him nevermore. Heartbroken, he says "and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted-nevermore" (1009).
In this story the raven most likely represents darkness/evil/death, so the man must have done something wrong in life to be recieving that kind of treatment from the raven. But in the end, he can no longer see his love and he dies all alone.
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In this story the raven most likely represents darkness/evil/death, so the man must have done something wrong in life to be recieving that kind of treatment from the raven. But in the end, he can no longer see his love and he dies all alone.
Work Cited
Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "The Raven." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 1006-009. Print.
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