Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven".
Date Submitted: 11/14/2004 11:48:40
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 4 pages (1104 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 4 pages (1104 words)
"The Raven"
The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe, is a poem about sadness, loss of hope, and lost love. The poem takes place at night "upon a midnight dreary." The poem examines emotions felt by a young man who has lost his lover to death. The following essay will examine these feelings, and try to distinguish the meaning of the poem.
The first stanza seems to set the mood of the poem, "Once upon a …
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…cast by the Raven upon the chamber floor then is the shadow of death, and the lover cannot escape the shadow no matter how hard he might try. The final lines of the poem hammer the final nails into the lover's symbolic coffin:
"And my soul from out that shadow...Shall be lifted-nevermore!"
All is lost; the lover has no hope of reclaiming his lover or his soul. Ever. Or, as the Raven quoth: NEVERMORE.
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