Question

The narrator slowly shifts from feeling calm and slightly amused at the Raven, to manic and unnerved. Why is the narrator so furious with the Raven? Cite textual evidence from the poem in your response.

Answer 1

The narrator of the poem becomes more paranoid and hallucinatory as the poem goes on.

Explanation:

The narrator of the poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe is a man who is illusion-ed and in a state of frenzy as he imagines a raven coming to his window and tapping on it.

It begins polite enough even with a little horror in the way of it:

'Suddenly there came a rapping,

rapping at my chamber door

it is a guest and nothing more'

Soon after, the narrator becomes paranoid of the voices and begins to fall for his own insecurities and the horror of the situation he is in.