Subterranean Homesick Blues Again Analysis

Dennis Reardon’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again”, and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, is a poem and a story involving a hellish type culture within them. All the characters of both stories are either ones who experienced the hell type feel, or are the ones who create this feel. Although there are many similarities between the two, there are many significant differences between the too as well. In both “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again”, and “The Raven”, similarities and differences can be found in order to distinguish the two.
In “The Raven”, the reader is taken through the eyes of a man who comes face to face with a raven who has entered his home. The man sees this bird as a prophet at first in the story, or as something of beauty and wonder. This same view is had on the caverns in “Subterranean Homesick Blues again”, as the caverns are

However, as both stories come to their endings, they both make these two descriptors take a sudden change in character. On page 191, in “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again”, the tour guide takes the two couples into what seems to be turning into a rather darker and more ominous place of the caverns. This is made sure to the reader, as the Tour Guide states, “Don’t be impatient. We’re almost there. Can you see? The island of contentions” This more likely evil feel makes the reader fully believe that this place truly is the Underworld. The same