In “The Raven” the speaker’s conversation with the raven makes the speakers more and more miserable. One example of this “Prophet! Said I, thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—Whether Temper sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,” 85
Another example of him being miserable is: “Be that word our sing of parting, bird or fiend! I shrinked, upstarting—“ 95. …show more content…
Well the Raven was answering the question but, not in the way he wanted. He wanted to hear about one thing and that one thing was Lenore. He wanted to hear good stuffs from them person that he loved the most, in this case its Lenore. But he raven kept saying the word “Nevermore” to every question he asked. As we can see the writer uses “if bird or devil” in the first example and then in the second example he uses “bird or fiend!” . Well in the first example the phrase “Bird or Devil” he is asking himself if the raven is a real stupid bird or a devil because he is not answering any of his question. The raven is only saying one word over and, over