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 has ever has.
             When a person like the narrator is feeling depressed, it is very easy to separate from the rest of society. Kenneth Silverman said, "the chamber in which the narrator is positioned, is used to signify the loneliness of the man, and the sorrow he feels for the loss of Lenore"(symbols, online source). The things around us affect our mood. The fact that the narrator does not at any point leave this room shows that he is unwilling to take himself out of a place that is keeping him upset. Everything about this room is saddening. "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain..."(Poe, 12). If this chamber that he lives and sleeps in is said in his own...