"The Raven"

Fist impression of “The Raven” is that it was just an OK poem. It uses several literary terms to boost the mood of the poem. As I read again I found a deeper meaning to the poem. The poem was not just about a man mourning over his dead lover. I compared the situations between the main character in “The Raven” and Poe's own life tragedies. This poem is actually a reflection of Poe’s own loss, his wife. Everything he wrote about Lenore is exactly what he felt and thought about his own wife. It relates to anti-tranacendtalist on many differ ways. A good example in the story was “but the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; This shows that the raven is treating his pain as a joke showing a sign of evilness. I think it’s saying that the raven doesn’t care about the mans feelings and taking it as a joke. I also realized that the story is about a mans pain for his lost of his wife, Raven is a sign of death and that’s why the raven was put in the story.

Another Example is "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted--On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore--Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." This is another example of anti-transcend lists because it’s talking about the devil. He is using the bird to haunt the main character, or the raven is an evil spirit of Lenore his lost love, and he's thinking that the house is becoming haunted and he starts to become insane and losing is mind. The raven keeps replying to everything he ask "Nevermore" and its making him upset and thinking the devil is evolved with the raven beings at his home.