Accepting death is not easy for anyone but it does not help to expect, worrying, and being obsessed. These attitudes are harmful and may lead to ignoring the consequences of our actions and long term goals. Also, acceptance does not mean playing around with your life. It just means accepting its predictability for all, embracing life and death as an undividable unity. “The Raven” is a narrative of a young fella who is grieving by the death of the women he truly loved and will never forget about her. With his soul filled with darkness he self-destructs with a raven’s repetition of the word ‘nevermore’, until he finally despairs of being united with his beloved Lenore. I came to the conclusion that Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” shows that…show more content… The first illusion I want to mention is the phrase ‘the night’s Plutonian shore (47).’ This phrase is seen in the poem several times and the narrator uses it when addressing the bird. The word ‘Plutonian’ is referring to Pluto, Roman god of the underworld, and is used as an adjective to describe Hell. Hell can be associated with many meanings but in this poem it is directly associated with death. In the Roman Church, Hell is the place where souls burn eternally once they are dead. Hence, ‘the night’s Plutonian shore’ is an illusion that Poe has used to express the eternal sorrow left after a loved one’s death. An additional allusion is when Poe stated “Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! (83)” The word ‘nepenthe’ is an ancient Greek word. It refers to a medicine for sorrow, or the so called drug of forgetfulness. It was first motioned in Homer’s “Odyssey.” Compared to the other allusion this is more direct. The narrator is practically begging the raven for “nepenthe” in other words this drug of forgetfulness. Once aging this allusion is expressing the eternal sorrow someone has after losing a love
