The Raven Essay -- Edgar Allen Poe

The Loss of a Loved MaidenIn The consume by Edgar Allan Poe, one sees the internal torment of a man in mourning for the lost love of a maiden, named Lenore that has died. The narrator expresses a sea of emotions everywhere the vision of a raven haunting and taunting him.As the man sits in his chamber he only seems to notice the negativeness of his surroundings in a depressive state of mind over his lost. ..A midnight dreary, term I pondered, weak and weary. He was, as many the great unwashed seem to be when they are depressed, in a lethargic and quiet down state nearly sleeping. He then was disturb by a tapping noise and slowly grew from slight excitement into fear and nervousness over the commotion. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me- change me with fantastic terrors never felt before. The narrator tried to rationalize the fact into some coincidental incident of someone at his door yet, in that respect was no one there. To this he pl ainly states, Deep into the darkness peering, farseeing I stood there wondering, fearing, only to perhaps start to question his sanity until he heard another noise. At this point in the poesy one may clearly see his very painful groom and state of mind as he wishfully whispers the word Lenore. The borderline state between idealism and reality has blurred. As the narrator tensely turns to the window to explore the disturbance, there the reader meets the raven that has entered into the room and located him...