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In the poem "The Raven" a student is reading in his chamber on a rainy night thinking about his dead mistress. There is a tapping at the window and the boy sees a raven that can speak only one work. The boy starts asking the Raven questions in a way of "self-torture" knowing the answer is "nevermore". The suffering becomes more intense and then the story ends (May 1649). Poe's life is easily related to this idea in a way that, like the boy, Poe was lonely due to the loss of his beloved wife and was depressed. The life of Poe is also tied into the story in the sense that, the boys suffering only intensifies, as does Poe's. Poe suffered through numerous obstacles in his life as if they would never end but only get worse. The story reaches its climax when the boy begins to go insane, and the story comes to an end. Poe's life is almost exactly the same because all of these things began to happen to him and just as he reached the "climax" of his suffering, his life ended. .
The setting of Poe's stories also play an important role of the overall central feeling and emotion of the character (Giola 212). In "The Raven" it is midnight in December, the final moments of the day and the last month of the year and the embers in the fire are dying. This resembles a time of death and decay. The dark tone of the setting introduces the tone of the rest of the story. To emphasize the sense of grief that the young student encompasses, Poe uses death to create the strongest level of grief to ensure that the speaker will never see his beloved again. He creates a variety in his rhythmic style by adding pauses and he uses consonances and assonances to keep the sound of the poem from becoming boring and monotonous ("The Raven" 207). .
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there .
wondering, fearing,.
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared.
to dream before;.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness.
