Thr Raven

This poem was about a man who is depressed about the death of his wife, and is up late at night trying to forget her by reading old stories. While sitting there half asleep he hears what he thinks is a knocking at his front door. He goes and finds nothing but the sound has not stopped. He then goes to his window and as he opens it a raven flies in. This stands out to me because a raven represents evil in a way, and at the time it is representing the depression that he is feeling after his wife has died. At this point it is clearly obvious that this is going against everything that the transcendentalist thought, because they did not believe that anyone would be depressed over death because that was god's work. He then has a conversation with the raven and asks is the raven ever going to go away and the raven answers never more. It is then that he realizes that he is going to be depressed about her death for the rest of his life. The transcendentalist would never speak about anything like this because they believed that everybody was to be happy all the time and accept what goes on around them.

The transcendentalist believed that all things were good and that when something happened that you should always look at it as something good. Dark romantics said no all things don't always have a good side because some things can cause you to be sad or hurt after it. They thought that everybody had some sort of evil in them because that was just human nature, because of the environment that they were in caused them to be. In the raven it shows a man sad and depressed over the death of his wife and a crown that represents the sadness and sorrow he will feel for as long as he lives.