Loneliness Depicted In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

To lose someone who is very important in your life is something that no one can get over easily or ever will. In the story, “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe the author does an accurate representation of what it’s like to lose someone. The Speaker in, “The Raven” is trying to avoid and forget his pain and doom until one night he imagines a Raven which leads him into a deep of hopelessness and loneliness. While others may disagree, the Raven in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” is imaginary because the speaker is so lonely, sad, and desperate to talk to someone or something, even a Raven. One reason the Raven is imaginary is because the Speaker is creating his own sense of sadness and depression. In the story, the Speaker asks the name of the Raven as if it were an actual person. Although the Raven simply replied, “Nevermore.”(Poe 48) the Speaker responds, “Though its answer little meaning- little relevancy”(Poe 50). The speaker there’s a Raven talking back to him but yet he doesn’t seem to care about the Raven’s reply. The speaker is so lost in his sadness and doom that he’s not concerned with the Raven’s unusual reply until later on. Given the fact the Raven replies, “Nevermore” the Speaker’s mind is too worried about his loss and
Within the story, when the Speaker shrieks in frustration and doom toward the Raven, the Speaker describes the Raven’s reaction to such event. The Speaker says, “And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting”(Poe 103). So as a result, the Raven’s uncertain behavior, that being not frightened, led to the belief that the Speaker is imagining the Raven’s behavior. The Speaker then falls into more despair and doom due to what he imagines is even more upsetting and puts him in a darker mood. Overall, the Speaker is extremely out of place which leads him to see things that he wish he never had even when it’s the