h its creation of an awareness of the inevitable; realizing that the ravens responseto any questions posed will be Nevermore, the character inquires about his lost love, therare amd radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, perhaps purposefully toexperience further torture and anguish (95). Through "The Raven," Poe makes a personal, introverted hell strangelymesmerizing and tasteful to all. The Gothic tone of The Raven, as explained by Poe inhis essay entitled "The Philosophy of Composition," has greatly influenced my own andpresumably other readers understanding of literature with regards to probing of the realmsof madness and melancholy. Poe's haunting linguistic descriptions, unnerving parallelismbetween his life and the poem, and alarming yet purposeful exploration of symbolism andsituation, draws the reader into spheres of insanity which at once explores the soul andpleases the reader. ...
