How Does Poe Present Grief In The Raven

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In Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Raven” is an intricate story of life’s shortness and how desperate individuals are to reclaim moments when we realised they have left. Such as losing a loved one or friends. Through the anger that persists as we grieve leads, we down a path of unwanted deprivation, and self-doubt. The individual who clings to the belief that he can answer his lingering questions by the mistreated Raven until his need to know becomes broken and regretted wholeheartedly. The Raven demonstrates the inner workings of a man's mind, as a representation of grief and signifying how desperate people can become because of it. This story demonstrates an individual’s inability to escape the depression and grief of a lost lover and presents how easily it can overcome people. Presented by the individual's unending need to live in the past of his lover, never to grow but trying to stay stagnant. The individual does this even though loosening his grief can only occur by accepting his lover’s fate is final and that she may be gone, but the love shared between them will never disappear. …show more content…
Allen’s poem shows the destructiveness of loss and how coping with it is difficult and such as an individual's use of understanding that if someone tries and just not giving to them sadness instead they understand and recognise what occurred they do not live in that moment they can overcome it. The Raven only demonstrates one side of grief in that the individual cannot stop thinking about the events that occurred instead of going on even though it is difficult the other side of grief is happiness. Therefore, the use of memories of old moment better days are used to go back or become levelled but they are not to be idled on but should be used in order to go through the times of great strife to reassure one’s self that things can get
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