The raven remains sitting. He overshadows the narrator, whose soul will never see happiness again.
<span>Analysis: </span>Boo! Hoo! Get a gun and shoot that freaking bird already! The raven's shadow most likely symbolizes sadness. It covers the narrator's soul, symbolic of the narrator never being happy again. Some claim the last stanza relates the narrator's death. They're wrong. The shadow remains on the floor and It's the narrator's soul that will never climb out from under the shadow of sadness. If your teacher tells you he died, tell him he's wrong. If he disagrees, ask him how a dead man can narrate a poem.
The way Okonkwo refers to his banishment was that he “…had been cast out of his clan like a fish on to a dry, sandy beach, panting.” This pitiful image shows Okonkwo's personal disgust, comparing himself to a lowly creature like a fish
