What Is The Mood Of The Raven
Name: Robert Przygoda
Professor: Dr. Shaun D. Curran
Course: English Comp 2F5-5
Date: April 1, 2017
Analysis of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe’s 18 stanza poem “The Raven” is an interesting yet sophisticated work of literature with stylized language, dramatic and melodic qualities and is set up in a supernatural setting. The general outline of the poem relates to a distraught lover who encounters a raven in one dark December night. The unnamed narrator who is identified as a student was on this day reading a folklore book seated beside the dying embers of a fire he had kindled to warm himself. All this while he was mourning and lamenting the early death of his love Lenore which has left him in a state of stupor madness. Out …show more content…
As his thoughts wander off he steps into the oblivion of his current reality on the loss of his lover Lenore. At some point, the narrator feels the presence of angels that he translates nudge to forget the memories of his departed love. With the buildup of mixed reaction and led by his anger, he bursts out angrily at the raven calling it a “prophet of evil”. Conversely, he asks raven whether he will get to see Lenore in his afterlife but is met with a just a stare and the still voice of the word “nevermore”. Enraged by this response, he calls the bird a liar and commands the bird to return to its “Plutonian shore” but the bird is not moved and remains sitting on the top of the Pallas. At the end of the poem, the young narrator makes a final admission that his soul will be forever trapped beneath the raven’s shadow with no hope in life and eternity to be lifted …show more content…
To some point, he even asks the raven whether it will be possible to meet with her in the afterlife. Moreover, the lingering grief of the loss is seen as a burden to his soul as his life is darkened even by the set up of the story. The entry of a black raven in the middle of the night is enough to create a lasting superstition that connotes his sorrow and painful experience. To a greater extent, his mental state is brought into question as to whether it is true that he has gone mad due to his grief. Moreover, the expectation to hold a conversation with a raven not only creates a monologue but also unravels a sense of irrational behavior which can be thought to border
Professor: Dr. Shaun D. Curran
Course: English Comp 2F5-5
Date: April 1, 2017
Analysis of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe’s 18 stanza poem “The Raven” is an interesting yet sophisticated work of literature with stylized language, dramatic and melodic qualities and is set up in a supernatural setting. The general outline of the poem relates to a distraught lover who encounters a raven in one dark December night. The unnamed narrator who is identified as a student was on this day reading a folklore book seated beside the dying embers of a fire he had kindled to warm himself. All this while he was mourning and lamenting the early death of his love Lenore which has left him in a state of stupor madness. Out …show more content…
As his thoughts wander off he steps into the oblivion of his current reality on the loss of his lover Lenore. At some point, the narrator feels the presence of angels that he translates nudge to forget the memories of his departed love. With the buildup of mixed reaction and led by his anger, he bursts out angrily at the raven calling it a “prophet of evil”. Conversely, he asks raven whether he will get to see Lenore in his afterlife but is met with a just a stare and the still voice of the word “nevermore”. Enraged by this response, he calls the bird a liar and commands the bird to return to its “Plutonian shore” but the bird is not moved and remains sitting on the top of the Pallas. At the end of the poem, the young narrator makes a final admission that his soul will be forever trapped beneath the raven’s shadow with no hope in life and eternity to be lifted …show more content…
To some point, he even asks the raven whether it will be possible to meet with her in the afterlife. Moreover, the lingering grief of the loss is seen as a burden to his soul as his life is darkened even by the set up of the story. The entry of a black raven in the middle of the night is enough to create a lasting superstition that connotes his sorrow and painful experience. To a greater extent, his mental state is brought into question as to whether it is true that he has gone mad due to his grief. Moreover, the expectation to hold a conversation with a raven not only creates a monologue but also unravels a sense of irrational behavior which can be thought to border