Analized Poems

I am going to analyze the third and fourth stanzas of the poem ¨The Raven¨ of Edgar Allan Poe. “The person has heard a knocking at his door, but no one was there”. At this point in the poem, his fear and excitement are increasing as some voice keeps repeating the word "Lenore." It is not clear whether he actually hears some other voice speak the word, or if he just interprets the echo after he himself says it as belonging to someone else. Most likely they are his own words, but in his imagination he is engaging in a verbal exchange with another person. After this exchange, his soul is burning, and though the foot note in the book interprets this as meaning he is embarrassed about his false assumptions about where the knocking came from, I think it more likely means that his soul is burning in anticipation of something more, something greater that is about to happen to him than he initially thought. Again he hears a tapping, and this time he goes to the window instead of the door. He is eager to find out what is out there, because the noise is so mysterious to him that he feels like he must investigate it. He miss very much to Lenore so his mind began to hallucinate and his conscience came like a bird. The whole passage seems to be a preparation of what is to happen in the next stanza - in which the raven appears. His whole self is focused on that event in anticipation, which is reflected in his language. He first enters into a dreamy state, in which his emotions of fear, yet also hope, take over. This is revealed in the verbs, "wondering, fearing, doubting, and dreaming." His mind is obviously in a very active state, as can be seen by the list of verbs. They are a mixture of positive and negative feelings. No one has "dared" means there is an element of fear involved when asking these questions - perhaps because they are not supposed to be asked by humans. He then repeats the words "Lenore" and "whispered," thereby putting some emphasis on them. Lenore,