English 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Il Penseroso, Emily Dickinson, Quatrain
1 Apr 2016
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Edgar allen poe: the raven (inishing up from last class) As he opens the door and looks out into the night, he longs for lenore yet fears for her return. He is afraid of losing her again or that she will have changed (eg. become a zombie which embodies the experience of the uncanny because it is sill familiar, but strange) When he opens the door he says, lenore? , but it is relected back to him as an exclamaion: lenore! : the raven is set up as a mediator between the speaker and lenore (in the speaker"s mind) When the speaker asks the raven"s name (trying to ind meaning), he responds, The end of the poem brings us back to the beginning: nevermore is both a beginning (more) and an ending (never, this is a part of the pleasure of melancholy.
