Chapter : A Short Story

It is only in the seventh stanza that the second character in this story is revealed. Here, the Raven is introduced. Within mythology, the raven is seen often enough that it has it’s own special altar in the world of the supernatural. In the Greek mythology, ravens are used by Apollo, the god of prophecy, as messengers to the mortal world. Even in Celtic mythology, ravens were associated with the goddess Morrigan who also gave prophecies. Also in both Norse and Welsh legends, the ravens symbolized wisdom. Both forms of prophecy and wisdom are presented Edgar Allan Poe in a way that is subtle yet impactful. Wisdom is immediately presented with the introduction of the raven, for it lands on the bust of Pallas who is more commonly known as Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. However, this raven is something special. It “Perched, and sat, and nothing more.” The tone of something eerie and supernatural continues to be carried out.

My cat, Syd, suddenly feels less heavy. It takes me a few seconds until I realize he’s levitating across the street over to Mr. Reaper, and Freyja and her cats. He seem very bright against the gloomy atmosphere. And he’s gone, they’re all gone, and I’m left standing here awkwardly, and shivering.

The narrator is as much saddened by the arrival of the raven, as he is disturbed. He says, "on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before" (732). He is still recovering from the sadness of the loss of Lenore and in this raven he may find comfort for a while, but the raven will only be gone in the morning, just like everything else.

The poem, “The Raven,” written by Edgar Allen Poe shows the deep depression and confusion that the narrator is experiencing since the death of his beloved wife. The gloomy setting of the poem predicts the visit of the Raven, whom is a sign of misfortune, darkness, and death. Throughout the poem, the narrator is continually mourning his wife, Lenore. He secretly hopes that the Raven will bring good news regarding his wife and his future; however, the Raven informs him that he will forever remain depressed. Furthermore, Poe uses setting, strong word choice, and symbolism to illustrate the Raven as the messenger of darkness and explain the narrator’s emotional state.

With loss, comes sadness, sometimes to such a degree that the sadness results in death. " The Raven" the poem, and "The Raven" the video are represented differently, but they still hold the same meaning behind them, with a man who is agonizing over the loss of his wife Lenore, and depression, disguised as a raven, terrorizes the man until he is pushed over the edge to death. The raven comes to the man's house, and at first he thinks the bird is there to bring Lenore to him, then he thinks he is there to bring him to Lenore, but then he is baffled and frustrated with the presence of the bird.

Vishah jerked awake, his chains rattled with the movement. He was holding on to the void, it's hunger prefrable to the pain. Sleep was his only way to tell time. No guards to bring food. No candles to watch burn down. No sun. Just his body.

Nearing slumber, a man distracts himself by reading "forgotten lore" over the death of his beloved, Lenore. The weight of the love he lost weighs down on him. His thoughts are interrupted by a knock on the door, in which mysteriously welcomes him with nothing. Slightly alarmed, he convinces himself that the knocking was just wind against his window. He opens the window as well, and in flies a raven. His first instinct is to talk with the bird which, amazingly, replies. Despite knowing that the raven is just taught by an "unhappy master" to utter nothing else but "nevermore," the man continues to hold a conversation in the hope of finding comfort in its presence, with an instance that it did not left like as the others. However, each question

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” though parodied, republished, and altered countless times, has withstood the test of time as one of the most recognizable and famous works of poetry in the English language. Carefully measured stanzas with a fascinating rhyme scheme embedded throughout, together with the unique and completely individualistic style of its author, are but a few of the elements that combine to elevate this poem in the public eye. It reaches an as-yet-unparalleled plane of poetic excellence. It is imperative, then, for the reader to understand that the conflict presented in “The Raven” is not the commonly-assumed “Man vs. Animal,” as though to embody the plight of the man as he pits

After checking his window for the first time he sees nothing, and assumes the wind is the culprit for the noise. He admits that he is depressed because of the death of his lover. After hearing the knocking again he returns to the window to investigate, and when he opens it, a black raven flies next to him. The man spoke to the raven and after saying “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

The raven also forces the narrator to accept reality and move on. For example, the narrator questions the raven whether “within the distant Aidenn” will he ever “clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore” (129). He ponders the thought of ever seeing Lenore in his after life. He is beginning to realize that the raven came to him to bring him a sense of reality. With this knowledge, he is full of sorrow. He longs to see her in heaven, but realizes that in reality this will never really happen. Also, the narrator wonders if his “soul from out that shadow…shall be lifted” while the raven replies, ‘nevermore’” (130). The shadow of the raven signifies the death of his beloved, and he knows that he will never be able to escape this shadow. He will never again find happiness in his life. The reality that the raven brings helps him comprehend the fact that hiding from his troubles will not make them better. Therefore, it forces him to accept reality and move on.

Return: (RP line cause for some reason this history doesn't want to come out) Naervon came awake panting hard and heavy, he was crammed up against something warm and large. Turning his head he noticed Osiris sleeping at his side, he watched the bear quietly before turning his head to look around. Slowly he sat up, he was in a large cave. He frowned not remembering how he got here, slowly he rose up on his paws. His legs felt weak and that appalled him, craning his head around he stared at his long legs shocked to notice how skinny they where, looking over his body he noticed he was on the verge of starvation. Turning on the spot he crept over to Osiris and sniffed at him, prodding him with his nose. He didn't feel much of the males ribs but he still felt them, flicking back an ear he stood up taller and flexed his wings. Pivoting he trotted to the cave's entrance and peered out, he could see the Lunar mountains before him and he stiffened. He was on the other side of them, not in

5The speker was talking to the raven and all that you could here was ever more ever more.

“The Raven” is a poem that combines love and death and shows how closely they are related. Love, and most of what it entails, is respected to be a positive aspect of life. While death, on the other hand, is a negative aspect that very few like to discuss. Poe, in a way, artistically performed an experiment and showed what happens when a positive or pleasurable aspect of life is taken away and replaced with a negative or unpleasing one. The poem tells the story of a man who is faced with living life without the companionship of his lover. We are presented with the stages of his mental deterioration throughout the poem. Brilliantly, Poe begins the poem by setting the mood that accompanies the intense type of heart ache that comes with losing a lover. In line one the narrator states that it is “midnight” and he is “weak and weary” (629). This introduces

Poe's most noticeable craft is that he was able to put a voice inside of a mind that is diseased and write psychological literature masterpieces. Poe utilized many literary tropes in order to further develop his narratives, one of them being “The Raven”. “The Raven” is a story filled with symbolism and great writing delved into the effects of psychological trauma and a shift in the protagonist's mindset. The story takes place during midnight, which is commonly associated with dark forces and frightening plots, along with the gloomy feel of December. He is a bereaved lover filled with sorrow attempting to get his mind off of Lenore when he hears a knock on his door that ” filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before” (Poe 375). It was the supposition of the lover that the knocking on the door was the “spirit of his mistress”( Poe 376) which demonstrates how deluded he was. However, when the raven enters his chamber it flies and lands above the head of Pallas, which signifies that his harmful mental obsession prevailed over human wisdom and logic, which are epitomized by Pallas. The protagonist comments to himself saying that the raven shall fly out of his life as others have done before, to which the raven replies “nevermore”(Poe 380). Once the narrator begins to become upset with the bird he states “thing of evil!”(Poe 383). He believes that the bird is a messenger from the afterlife and represents a demonic image in relation to Pluto, ruler of the underworld. The Plutonian sent bird is there to witness and expedite the protagonists descending into madness.

In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator showed signs of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, wrath, towards a raven. Throughout this particular poem, the narrator became more and more angry at the raven. The narrator was napping in his chair in the middle of the night when he thought he heard someone knocking on his door when in reality it was coming from his window. A raven was tapping at his window. The narrator accidentally opened the window and let the raven in, the bird then flew to the top of his door. The narrator yelled at the raven to, “ Get thee back into