I do not undestand the ending. What does it mean? If you could answer me or give me a helpful website that would be great! Thanks!
2007-02-28 11:55:19 · 5 answers · asked by survivor_luvr 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I always thought that he figured if he could get the Raven to reassure him he would get Lenore back.
When he realizes that he's stuck with the Raven and there won't be any more Lenore, he loses it.
Very dramatic, I must say, as my name is Eleanor and I thought she must have looked like me . . . .
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadows on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted--nevermore!
Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page. … There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet’s life and reminiscences, as well as the poems.
2007-02-28 12:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition", he wrote:
"The reader begins now to regard the Raven as emblematical- but it is not until the very last line of the very last stanza that the intention of making him emblematical of Mournful and never ending Remembrance is permitted distinctly to be seen:
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting,
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming,
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted- nevermore."
2007-03-02 10:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means he gave up. The raven is still there, and hes still losing his mind. Its Edgar Allen Poe, were you expecting a happy ending?
2007-02-28 12:01:29 · answer #3 · answered by Reggie R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Raven won. The raven is somewhat of a bridge to His lunacy and by the end He crossed it. His love was gone and so was his mind.
Poe is the MAN!!!
2007-02-28 12:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, in two sylables boring...
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2007-02-28 12:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by Fishs girl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋