SaraRemaley

The Raven

If any of you know, I am a Poe fan, however, I have never really gotten into The Raven. It's not because I don't like the poem, it was always basically because I didn't really understand it. I never took the time to disect it and try to understand it. I did like reading it just because of the rhyme and rhythm that it has. Actually, when we were assigned to read it, my boyfriend and I were at the park and I made him listen to me read it aloud. He then proceeded to say that it sounded awesome, but then asked me what it meant. "I dunno!" was my response. I have a general idea, but I actualy had to research it to truly get myself to understand it.
I like how Poe uses the raven as a character that the narrator cannot get responses from. He is supposed to be left wondering and pondering. It wouldn't make sense if Poe used a human instead of a raven because a human could answer the questions.
It is true that we torture ourselves about things in life that we can derive no explanation from. It's comparable to losing a loved one,just like the narrator did, we want to know why it happened and have a constant feeling of emptiness, but there is no physical way that we can have all of our questions answered. Nothing will make us feel better, but regardless, we always jump to conclusions about the slightest inclination of some knowledge of an answer or solution to our problem.