Edgar Allen Poe's "the Raven".

Essay by sweethrt627High School, 11th gradeA-, November 2003

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In life when bad things happen people tend to focus on negative things and pretend like nothing else matters. They let these things effect their thoughts and feelings and it starts to take over their emotions. In The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker has many negative thoughts. The speaker does not understand critical thinking so he doesn't understand why he is feeling and thinking the way he does.

Throughout the story the speaker concentrates and gets so wrapped up in his thoughts that it starts to effect his feelings. He shows this by the way he tries to lose him self in his book. "And each dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor", this is stating that he is seeing every thing as if it has died. He feels this because he feels as if he is alone. When he heard the knock at the door and to find out that it was just a raven the thoughts about Lenore brought him to get his feelings and hopes up.

The speaker gets very irritated by the way the bird stays in the house and keeps mimicking him. He begins to yell and throw things at the bird. If he knew critical thinking he would understand why he was doing that and control himself. In ways it's as if he does it to get rid of the anger caused by Lenore. The raven sitting over the door and never moving symbolizes in ways that his feelings will never go away for Lenore. But with him fighting the raven it shows that he is trying to fight his feelings by getting it out of his life and will continue to weep and dwell on his sadness as long as the raven is over the door.

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