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Madness In Poe's The Raven

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“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” -Madame de Stael. None of us are immortal in life. Losing a person you love, is losing him forever. “Nevermore,” you will see that loved one, with the smile upon his face. “The Raven” is one of the most famous poem’s that are used to describe how a person would feel losing a loved one. The poem also contains different kind of devices, and structure. Due to the interesting rhyme, alliteration, and different kind of structures used; people all around the world got interested to it. Edgar A. Poe the famous poet, shows us in “The Raven,” how a normal person, can turn to a mad one by losing someone he/she loves. Poe creates a sense of madness in the poem “The Raven” by depression, insanity, and the Raven itself.
Madness is not a way to treat yourself. Somehow it is a way to seek depression. Knowing how Poe creates the depression among the character in the poem, surely hints that he uses madness. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,” this specific line from the poem shows us how the man in the poem have been through different problems, that keep him down, and unable to stand. The way Poe describes the character, as weak and weary showed us how he’ve been tired from life, as well as he is weak, and half dead. A weak person would be the known person who is thin, and not living life the way thier supposed to. Life is just like a journey where you could assume who have
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