The Raven

The Raven

I am going to talk about the narrative poem named the raven wrote by Edgar Alan poe. I am going to make inference in two values: commitment and citizenship, I am going to write about if this two values are in this poem or not.

But first, the raven is a poem that show how a man never forget a lost love, this poem show the sadness that the man have and the obsession of the memory of the death of this woman.

In this poem any of this two values, citizenship and commitment, they are not applied in this poem. I am going to take citizenship as the first value, the meaning of citizenship is the state of living in a particular area or town and behaving in a way that other people who live there expect of you, so in my personal opinion this value is not applied because I didn’t see any other person behaving in any way or doing something for the man when he was in a big grief for the death of the woman he love, Lenore, for me, citizenship is also to have care, in some way, for others, to pay attention to them and to behavior in an special and good way so that the other person feel that you have some care for them. Another thing that we can see is that never appear any person in this poem that help with the depressed and grief of the man, they never mentioned any person who help to move on or tell them to continue her life as always, so that also has a big implication in the sadness of the man and what he never move on to continue a normal life without getting sad every moment and every time, because he was always sad when he remember the death of the love of her life, so in conclusion of this value, there is applied in this poem of the raven.

Know I am going to talk about the value of commitment, the meaning of this value is a willingness to give your time and energy to something that you believe in, or a promise or firm decision to do something, so in my personal opinion i think that this value is also not applied in this poem because I will think (for example) that the man would be have commitment with herself to move on for the memory of Lenore, or he would try to do something for never would be like that, but I didn’t see anything like that, or anything relate with that value in this poem.

In this poem of Edgar Alan poe, inferring, i would think that the raven would represent like sadness or dead, and that also he would never move on with the memory of Lenore, another important fact is that every time that the man ask them a question or try to talk with the raven, the raven always say “never more” and the man didn’t know what’s that means. In another perspective totally different, we can also say that maybe the raven Came to them to help them to forget the memory of Lenore and move on in her life, but the only thing that the raven says was never more so we can be totally sore that was for that reason.

In conclusion we can’t see this two values in the poem, but we can see how the dead of someone special for a man can affect your mind at the point of never forget them and never move on.

Self-Reliance

Self-Reliance

The beauty of self-reliance lies in its way to send a rather simple yet transcendent message which is that live does not need all these fancy and complicated conformities to live happily. One can live happily with the basic although little things in life this is also compared to two values caring and patience.

Patience is displayed from the very beginning as the author describes his experience of leaving everything he had to live life happily living only with what’s absolutely necessary or as he describes it finding the true meaning of life, he goes to great lengths he as he questions what is truly the purpose of life stating that one must be himself and not be something or someone we are not and that humans greatest mistake is to pretend to be some thing or someone we are not, he also highlights the fact that mankind has become more and more conformist with society not questioning the morality or even the fairness of the situation. Waldo also says that mankind stopped questioning the morality and the rules of society and just be conformist towards the current situation.

Waldo also says that man’s emotion is something passenger, like the wind they come and go, but he goes ahead and question why it’s relevant. He also displays a very accurate quote of what is good and evil, he states that good and evil are merely names, but very rarely does it translate to something concrete or even an action, and I must say that I agree, no matter how you put it the line between good and evil, is often blur black and white become gray so easily.

The author displays a great deal of care towards human kind and showing his preoccupation towards the disgusting conformism that mankind has adopted in the last century, and that one must be unconformity to find what’s wrong with society ask questions, question the establish law, ask yourself how morally grey is our society.

He also displays a sad, but accurate statement in which he declares that all the great thinkers or philosophers had been greatly misunderstood since their ideas to change society were ruined purely due to ignorance thanks to the conformism of the now a day society, or even the one from their time. Socrates, Jesus Aristotle, Plato, four of the greatest thinker’s inventors and philosophers and all suffered the same unfortunate fate misunderstood by society and where branded outcasts and looked down upon just cause of their different ways of thinking.

But definitely the most important if not my favorite point the story tries to prove is that we have lost most of our self-trust since we are afraid of not fitting into society since according to them if you are not like the rest you are not normal, honestly I couldn’t agree more since this is society’s greatest problem is that we try to do anything to fit in even if we know we normally wouldn’t do those sort of things.

And that we have also focused too much on frivolous material things that are inconcecuencial to life its self. The author displays how much he cares and preoccupies for society as a hole and he worries, because he sees that we have become conformist and have stopped caring for creating a truly open and free society, and he displays patience in the sense that he actually took the time to actually write about what he thinks and actually are the greatest flaws of modern day society.