Unrealism The Raven

Being in love, for most, is defined as an unimaginative feeling that is meant to cause utter happiness. Although being in love is expected to be seen as a positive, there are some people who are unlucky and have to face the reality that life isn’t always filled with what’s expected.There will always be a chance that one day the happiness could be taken away in the blink of an eye. Then, what’s left is a place of emptiness that eventually is filled with darkness and pain. This new darkness consumes one’s self, just as it did for the narrator in “the Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. In this poem, although the Raven may be portrayed as unrealistic, the Raven itself is real, but the torment and misery that the narrator faced was just a figment of his

Throughout the poem, the narrator is faced with dealing with his paranoia leading him to jump to unrealistic conclusions. From the beginning, he was terrified of the unknown, so the fear was already present in his head,“...uncertain rustling of each purple curtain, Thrilled me -filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before..”. He clearly states that he is afraid of what’s to come, which means his mind already has an idea of it being something to fear. Our minds are easy to fool when vulnerable, so the fact that he was scared affected the way he reacted. His reaction to the unknown was starting to “Doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before…” as if he were trying to scare himself more. Instead of trying to forget about what has

Those who’ve lost a loved one suffer the most because they once felt the feeling of being accompanied and loved, then suddenly the feeling was gone. This sudden change was unfortunately experienced by the narrator in “The Raven” causing him to always only believe in the worst, which led to self affliction. From the start, the narrator’s loneliness stands out because he has this idea that everybody eventually leaves, “Other friends have flown before- on the morrow he will leave me as my Hopes have flown before”. From this moment, the reader was able to tell that this man was using his experience with losing someone to come to the conclusion that no one stays forever, including the Raven. He refused to believe the Raven would stay, even after the Raven “answered him” by saying “Nevermore”, which was assumed to be seen as the Raven saying he would stay. The narrator believed, “what it utters is its only stock and store,caught from some unhappy master..” or in other words he believed that what the Raven was saying meant nothing in correlation to his statement of people always leave. He says this because due to his loneliness and grief he refuses to believe that something positive could happen in his life . On the other hand, when it comes to believing something negative the narrator jumps to believe that it must be true. The narrator ask the