Edgar A P
2007-09-14 11:23:30 · 7 answers · asked by C'est Comme Un Rêve 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
To emphasize the fact that the man's lost love (she's dead) is gone forever.
Strangely enough the narrator, knowing that one word is the Raven's total vocabulary, seems to take a perverse delight in framing questions for the bird that will only increase his sorrow and despair when he gets the inevitable one word answer. Rather like picking at a scab or probing a toothache.
Poe said he choose the word for it's loooong vowel sounds. He was a great one for assonance and alliteration.
2007-09-14 11:36:16 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
It's a raven, what were you expecting? a recitation of "war and peace".....
actually, it is due to the state of mind of the narrator of the story. He is so depressed about his lost love (Lenore) that he interprets the raven's caw as the word "nevermore"
2007-09-14 18:44:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He has lost his sweet Lenore. He suffers from a broken heart. Anyone who has suffered a broken heart feels the word "Nevermore" thumping in his/her head. Lenore must have been some catch.
2007-09-14 18:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by crocolyle10 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never more to see his true love, nevermore to hear her voice or feel her touch, never more to know the peace of a still mind, never more to know the peace of guiltlessness.
2007-09-14 23:51:41 · answer #4 · answered by topo8032003 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's an evil raven..and he's trying to drive the poor guy insane.
2007-09-14 18:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he has done trouble things in his life and its his conshounce
raven being the died wife coming back to hount him
2007-09-14 18:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by chelsea s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He picked it up from his owner, who was pining for a lost love.
2007-09-14 18:37:20 · answer #7 · answered by Leah 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋