The pearl
Every person, in at least one point of his or her life, goes through loss. Sometimes people lose a pet or a distant relative. However, nothing can compare to the death of a loved one. Death is the most final thing in life; it is the end of all endings. People think that they will never see the person that they loved again. It is for this reason that people may become so distraught over another's death. Most people, after losing a close love, have to overcome real emotional hardships. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" his use of the character the raven and the setting help to prove that when you lose someone you truly love, you may never fully overcome the sorrow.The basic outline of The Raven shows a highly intelligent man who is looking to books for the cure to his pain. The reason of his pain is due to the loss of his beloved Lenore. The setting of the poem takes place in the narrator's chambers. The time is very late at night in the late December. It is obvious from "eagerly I wished the morrow" that the narrator just wants the night to end and a new day to start (Poe, 9). A raven intrudes on the narrator and seems that he wants nothing more than to make this night the longest that the narrator
If the narrator, or anyone, is able to overcome the grief of death and think clearly, you will soon be healthy and happy. The symbol of bleak December is used to show that it is the end of the year and that change is about to happen. In the poem The Raven there are many symbols used through the settings and what the narrator says. This is the problem that he starts out the poem looking for in the first place, "quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" (Poe, 2). . In his grief the narrator does not pick up on this and asks the bird questions that will set him up for disappointment. This time is dark, gloomy time, and even death can be associated with it. When the narrator talks about his fireplace you can tell what mood he is in when he says it. The narrator, at first thinks that the raven may be a friend and looks at him as one "blest with seeing bird on chamber door" (Poe, 52). In line eight the same thing can be seen when he says "each separate dying ember," by this the narrator may seem depressed using the words "separate" and "dying" (Poe). The poem of the raven exploits a major flaw in human emotions, our ability to misread or misinterpret and convince ourselves of something unnecessarily.
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