While the state of mind of the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is already fragile, the events that take place throughout the poem help deteriorate his psychological state by forcing him to come to terms with the tragedy that has taken place in his life. This is demonstrated throughly by using the setting, the form and meter of the poem and the diverse use of imagery, symbolism and motif. Edgar Allan Poe has based this poem on fear: the fear of losing someone that we love, the fear of spending the rest of our life alone and the fear of losing ourselves in our own mind. Oddly enough, it is easy to put one’s self in the narrator’s position. To begin, the use of the setting is not only important, but it is essential to the development
