s what the outcome would be. To show that Virginia has not died yet when he completed the poem, Poe would not allow the raven to flay away. The scenario is like a timeless nightmare to Poe. The same is portrayed in the poem through the narrator. Once the raven appeared, it seems that time just stopped to the narrator the same way Poe must have felt when he heard about his wife's accident. As the poem closes, the narrator will not be able to free himself from his grief. And in real life, Poe “began drinking heavily, and left Graham’s Magazine” (Bloom 14), returning to his old ways, as well as poverty. Ironically, in 1847, Virginia died of tuberculosis, the same disease responsible for his mother’s death....
