domingo, 10 de febrero de 2019

Citizenship and Commitment in "The Raven"
 The values are citizenship and commitment before to know if those values are related or not in the story/ poem we need to know the meaning of both of them.
Citizenship means the state of living in a particular area or town and behaving in a way that other people who live expect of you, and commitment means the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause activity, etc...
The Raven is a story/poem about a man trying to forget a lost love but he never succeeds, and this story has a dark mood and depressing theme. In my personal opinion, I never saw those values in there is a story really dark and with a lot of alliterations.
The speaker in this story/ poem is a man who is sad, angry, in grief and irritated by the visitor (the raven). The entire mood of The Raven is dark and suspicious, the whole poem centers about death. The line "it was bleak December" (that also is the first line of the second stanza) gives us the effect that everything surrounding the speaker is grave and without any happiness, thanks to this I can infer that the story doesn't have any of those values.
I can say those values are not in the story, but I can see the madness in it because the speaker seems to fall in hard times, and the reference he did about wild dreams, I can see lost love too, is probably (in my opinion) the principal theme of the story/poem, can see the grief in the entire narrative and finally guilt and death, analyzing the story I infer that the raven in some way is like the reincarnation of the narratives guilty condense that is nagging at him, the speaker maybe is not responsible for the death of his beloved but he feels as though he could help to stop it.
The values are not in the story at all, but in the story, I can see a lot of representation of feelings or other different emotions and values like the raven is a symbol of the narrator's pain for his lost and symbolizes death and wisdom, the constantly "Nevermore" that the bird said give us an idea that the speaker may have gone insane with pain and guilt and the speaker asking to the bird if know an angel called Lenore, shows the worried he has about where and how is his beloved.
Along the loss of Lenore, the speaker also losses his mind.
Is already clear that the values are not in the story but most of Edgar Allan Poe´s stories, poems and narrative are about dark topics and moods an example of this is when the speaker seems really depressed ön the morrow, he will leave me as my hopes have flown before". He thinks that the raven will leave him, as Lenore did, he is afraid it afraid it will fly out the window, like his hopes.
We can also know, that those values and anyone could be part of the story for the background of it, Poe´s wife was dying of tuberculosis in the next room so this caused him to write this poem/ story for what his life would be after she passed.
  In conclusion, we can't see the values in the story but we can explore themes of grief, negativity, and depression in someway the poem, suggest that grief and negativity can produce long-term depression in a person who has lost a loved one and is experiencing extreme loneliness, and also we see symbolism, and the classic gothic/ dark way to the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.