How Does Edgar Allan Poe Portray the Emotions of the Speaker in the Raven

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‘The Raven’ is written by Edgar Alan Poe. He wrote ‘The Raven’ in 1845. In the poem there is a man who is annoyed by a raven who continually saying ‘never more’. This drives the man crazy and frustrated that he dies. Throughout the poem there is fear sadness and frustration this I mostly caused by the raven and the man’s lost love. The man feels sadness because he has just lost his love Lenore ‘sorrow for the lost Lenore’ we don’t know from this quote where Lenore is but this one does ‘whom the angles name Lenore’ this shows that is dead. He believes in heaven and god so he believes she was really good to god so she has become an angle. He doesn’t know this for sure, but he believes it. He is grieving over her throughout the poem he is sad and wants to know if he can see her again in heaven then his chance comes when a raven comes to the door the man askes the poem but the raven replies nevermore meaning no he won’t this is very sad to find out because this is all his believes and dreams gone down the drain. The speaker feels fear and is scared because he has lost his love and he will never see her again and he doesn’t think he will survive without her. He is completely alone then a knocking comes at the door he is extremely scared by this and to calm his fear and nerves he tells himself a little story. This doesn’t work though. When he opens the door to no one the tapping continues at the window this time louder and he is terrified, again he tells his little story and he wraps up all his fears and opens the window to a talking raven. He is also scared by this and thinks he is evil and starts to assume things ‘if bird or devil’ (This quote is in verse 16) he says this to get away that he could be telling the truth and heaven doesn’t exist and he will never see his love again. By saying the bird is a devil means the bird is trying to deceive him into

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