Reading Response To The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven” was written by Edgar Poe on January 29, 1845. The first few times I’ve read I have read “The Raven” multiple times and I always thought that the bird is fake but the bird doesn’t exist except in the narrator’s dream. “The story is a bit pretty complex, the narrator seems like somebody who is pretty smart because he is reading “forgotten lore”. It sometimes seems to get over “Lenore's” death. He both wanted to forget her and to remember her at the same time. Then there is this raven. The man tortures himself by asking the raven questions about after when he knows all the raven will reply is “Nevermore” multiple times and it felt like when the bird repeated that word many times it seemed like he was getting annoyed by it.
Perhaps the Raven wasn’t haunting him but the raven was completely brought on by itself. So in a way, it was like torturing himself. When he says “Other friends have flown before- On the morrow, he would leave me,” and the Raven simply told him “nevermore”. All his friends have left but not the raven, he’s now his buddy. I like how his other friends are similar and compared to birds, with the use of the word “flown. ” This makes me think he’s losing his thought. His “friends” are his insanity and they kept leaving, but not this Raven, he will leave him. “nevermore”, If the Raven is real he is certainly dreaming about his afterlife it seems like. The narrator asked him if he was a messenger from the “Night’s Plutonian shore. ” Pluto is another name for” Hades” is the god of the Underworld.
Also, Ravens are typically known as an evil bird and were damned in the bible. ”Wonderful”, he’s either being haunted by an evil bird, or he’s lost his imagination and the bird is all in his head and he’s dreaming. Even if there was a raven in the room what are the chances of it speaking to him? Besides, if he did or if he wasn’t crazy before this, a bird who repeats the same word over and over again is enough to drive a man crazy and to make him mad. In the story I think that the bird was imaginary, but when the bird flew into the window. Then later the bird flew on to the top of the sculpture of the chamber door and sat there after a few hours the bird started speaking. After sitting there for Hours Edgar started getting curious and then the bird spoke and him and said “nevermore” multiple times.
In this story, I think that there were moments though of realistic things and imaginary things. The story to me felt like it was based more on like death. I think that in the story when Edgar heard the knock on his chamber door, then he went to go open it, and then there was nothing there. So, then he heard it again and he went over to the window and then the raven came into the window, and flew on to the top of the door and sat on the sculpture. there and at that point I think that the bird was existent and not Imaginative.
