Symbolism In Edgar Allan Poe's Poem, The Raven

In the poem “The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe wrote about grief, sadness, and depression. He is writing about a young girl named Lenore. She is depicted as pure, beautiful, and the very thing that the main character lives for, his beloved Lenore. When he loses her, he is sent into a spiral of depression. This leads him to believe that a black raven pecking at his door was sent by Lenore. Through out the poem “The Raven” Poe uses many things to illustrate the theme darkness, such as the words he so carefully uses, the symbols that are chosen, and the description of everything.
The natural bitterness of the sonnet is set up from the earliest starting point, when the storyteller starts with a specific end goal to get his mindset off of Lenore. The

overall melancholy and depressed mood is further established in descriptive, scene-setting language such as "midnight dreary" and "bleak December." At the point when the raven lands at the storyteller's entryway, his trouble and yearning for Lenore lead him to whisper her name. The raven's shadow is additionally depicted as beating the storyteller and ingraining trouble. The raven seems to know no word other than "Nevermore," conveying a miserable and sub-par message. Images of night and passing additionally overrun the ballad to loan it a significantly gloomier and all the more destroying tone.
Night and every one of its secrets make the second image in the sonnet that sets up the topic of obscurity and melancholy.

Murkiness speaks to the peril hiding all through the verse. The startling pictures dive from the ethereal anguish brought through the obscure force of the midnight hour. The shadows, the hopelessness, the scariness—all encapsulate the setting and environment inside of the lyric. A particular reference adds fuel to the night's fire: the Night's Plutonian shore. The writer takes the pursuer to the pits of hellfire with his suggestion to the Roman lord of the underworld… and obviously, tending to the shore would be the ferryman prepared to take the dead crosswise over to the entryways of Hades. The fact of the matter is self-evident: this is a horrible

night.
Finally , the words themselves give the lyric's lines the despairing state of mind.

Poe was an expert of choosing words that made disposition. In this lyric, words, for example, "darkness", "fearing", "doubting", "echo", "nothing" all give a sentiment hush and of being totally alone. His expressions work the same path, deep into the darkness", "stillness gave no token", "silence was unbroken", "nothing more". Likewise, Poe rehashed words to accentuate the disposition. He rehashes "dreaming" and "dreams" three times; "whispered" is also repeated. When he doesn't repeat the word, he utilizes similar sounding word usage to proceed with the inclination in such cases as ""silence" and "stillness" and all the "d's". At that point, Poe uses the sentences to make disposition. He lets us know that the storyteller is alone to the point that when he simply whispers "Lenore", the word is reverberated back to him. The storyteller is whispering the name of his perished love in a sincere any expectation of listening to her voice however all he hears is his own voice. It is clear that he is lamenting hugely over her demise. This is most likely the point where he comes to realization that Lenore is truly

gone.
Ultimately Edgar Allan Poe was writing about grief and depression. Among different themes, the poem is a point by point examination of depression and misery. There is not the slightest glimmer of hope at the poem's ending. Poe's hero travels through a few particular phases of distress until he sinks into a misery at the poem’s conclusion. He doesn't come to acknowledge his misfortune; he just endures and learns to manage it.