th her mother in a comfortable house in Philadelphia, and he seemed to have completely controlled his drinking. (Bloom 13). But his own happiness ranked last when compared to problems he was facing. Despite their social class, all “accounts report that the Poes were a happy, loving couple” (Bloom 13). And watching his wife that he loved so much, suffer everyday, subsequently drove Poe to the point where he wished for her to be painless forever – Die. Even though formatted in a hard to understand manner, Poe did not make his dark wish a secret when he wrote “The Raven.” Line 59 with the backing of lines 78 and 101 could serve as a good example. The first half of line 59, “On the marrow he will leave me,” was used in order to describe Poe’s fear. It is true “he” refers to the Raven, to who the narrator was talking. But symbolically speaking, the raven is a ship and Virginia the passenger. The Raven is here to end it all by taking her soul to Plutonian, the land of the dead, which means that when the raven departs, she will too. For Poe to ask the raven to “take [its] beak from out [of his] heart, and take [its] form from off [his] door”(101), is the same thing as ordering Virginia to give up and die. On top of the order, he added line 78, “she shall press, ah, nevermore,” to demonstrate her death will bring him some form of closure or relief; no more worries, no more wondering, no more choices, nothing – as the raven claims “nevermore.”On the other hand, the second part of line 59, “as my hopes have flown before,” shows the hopelessness that he feels because whether she lives or dies, his problem will not be solved. If she dies, he will not see her suffer anymore, but he will return to his lonely, miserable life. At this stage it is crucial to know why Poe chose to marry his own thirteen-year-old cousin in the f...
