The Raven Response Essay
“The Raven” Response
What I Thought, Felt, and Pictured
“The Raven,” it is one of the spookiest, dreariest, most haunting poems ever written. There is a lingering of the devil over the poem, the sound of deadly silence, and a picture of gruesomeness. There is no escaping the locked enclosure “The Raven” traps you into, and there is an abundance of tempestuous feelings and thoughts running through one’s mind when reading the poem.
The poem started out by ringing a loud lingering boom in my mind, that carried throughout the entire poem. The mood, a dark, spooky night, and introduction of a weak man give an early prediction of a saddening end to the poem.
The poem then takes a turn that one would not expect. The man speaks of a woman, a dear woman who he was madly in love with. The unfortunate part is that she has been taken from him, leaving his heart weak and shattered. The man speaks of sorrow, fear, and nostalgia of his time with his lover. …show more content…
I find out that I am right whilst reading the next few verses. The man is truly becoming terrified by the knocking on his chamber door, it isn’t stopping, but when he opens the door, there is darkness and nothing more.
The man then shows how heartbroken he is by asking for his lover, Leonore, and it is returned with an echo. I begin to think that this will end as a romantic ghost story, the man ending his life to be with his lover, but I continue to read on. “The Raven” is a poem that draws you in like no
What I Thought, Felt, and Pictured
“The Raven,” it is one of the spookiest, dreariest, most haunting poems ever written. There is a lingering of the devil over the poem, the sound of deadly silence, and a picture of gruesomeness. There is no escaping the locked enclosure “The Raven” traps you into, and there is an abundance of tempestuous feelings and thoughts running through one’s mind when reading the poem.
The poem started out by ringing a loud lingering boom in my mind, that carried throughout the entire poem. The mood, a dark, spooky night, and introduction of a weak man give an early prediction of a saddening end to the poem.
The poem then takes a turn that one would not expect. The man speaks of a woman, a dear woman who he was madly in love with. The unfortunate part is that she has been taken from him, leaving his heart weak and shattered. The man speaks of sorrow, fear, and nostalgia of his time with his lover. …show more content…
I find out that I am right whilst reading the next few verses. The man is truly becoming terrified by the knocking on his chamber door, it isn’t stopping, but when he opens the door, there is darkness and nothing more.
The man then shows how heartbroken he is by asking for his lover, Leonore, and it is returned with an echo. I begin to think that this will end as a romantic ghost story, the man ending his life to be with his lover, but I continue to read on. “The Raven” is a poem that draws you in like no