By focusing on the narrator’s inability to accept the death of his beloved Lenore in the short story “The raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, it is evident that “The Raven” is a gothic romantic work, and this is important because it introduced the darker side of romanticism to America. Poe, one of the most prominent gothic romanticists of his time, was scourged by the loss of loved ones at this point in his life, and in many of Poe’s writings he describes the psychological effects of death. The narrator displays the struggle of mourning the loss of his beloved Lenore when he pleads, “Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! / Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!” (Poe 82-83). Poe depicts the narrator as crying out begging for the ability to …show more content…
By having the narrator go through a mental breakdown over his inability to respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore, Poe shows the psychological effects of death and how they have affected the narrator, and since gothic romanticism deals with the psychological processing of death and the darker side of humanity, “The Raven” is a gothic romantic piece of literature. Through looking at the narrator’s struggle of grieving his beloved Lenore, it is clear that “The Raven” is a gothic romantic piece of literature, and this is important because it introduced the darker side of romanticism to America. By referring to the supernatural and unexplainable forces in the short story “The Raven”, it is evident that “The Raven” is a gothic romantic piece of literature, and is important because it introduces the gothic romantic side of romanticism. Gothic romanticists use nature and the supernatural