Nominal Understanding of The Raven
In preparation for this paper I read over many different types and genres of texts, trying endlessly to find a text that I did not understand, but also one that intrigued me. Nothing that I read caught my attention and grabbed me from the first line. That is until I came to Edgar Allen Poe. This infamous American writer grabs the reader's attention from the first line and does not let go. His dark, morbid views on life are original and have not been replicated yet. Edgar Allen Poe wrote with all his heart and soul. In his poems, every word counts; there is a meaning in every stanza. As most writers do he intertwined his life experiences with his characters fictional existences. When I decided that I was going to write this paper on Edgar Allen Poe, I then had to decide which one of his texts I was going to write this paper over. I read many of his short stories and his poems. They all were laced with underlying meaning and packed with mood and style, but I finally de!cided on one of his most famous passages, "The Raven." Since the entire poem of "The Raven" is well over two pages, I decided to write this paper over the first seven stanzas. The poem in itself is a modern day masterpiece; it is saturated in dark mood a
Poe says, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. Surely, said I, surely that is something at my window lattice. This seems to be foreshadowing for events soon to come in the poem. This tells me that this is an old wise raven, which has endured the ages through thick and thin. I am a visual learner, if I can see something or picture something in my head then I will probably understand it better. Once you hear one thing your mind snowballs everything after that into a demon outside your window or a witch. " Again I started to try understanding by looking up the words that I did not understand. At this point your are still in the state of asleep coconsciousness. To be awakened from sleep by someone or something gently tapping on my door. He is getting very nervous because it is deathly quiet in contrast with the bumps and rustlings in the empty house. This sets the mood of a dark moonless night, where anything is possible, at least in a person's mind. At the time of night it seems odd that a person would knock on a persons door, but in his tired mind he believes this to be true. He does not have to wonder if he really heard something or not anymore, he now knows. He goes on to make excuses and keep his mind clear, because no man wants to believe it is a ghost knocking on there wind.
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