Dying While Your Living

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, is a poem which uses symbolism to illustrate the authors feelings. The raven, is the typical black bird everyone sees on the cemeteries and funerals. In movies we relate this bird with someone's death as soon as we see it. In this poem the raven is not used to symbolize somebody's death but it represents death itself.

During the whole poem the main character talks about the different ways in which his life has been miserable, and with this he asks the raven the questions he need to ask before going to another world, and the raven just answers never more. With this words "raven said nevermore" we not only see a symbol of how the other world may look like a paradise for who is dying, but its also a way to attract the readers attention by repeating the sounds of the letters E and N making it sound more rhythmical, technique that helps the reader stay focused on the poem. An example of this form of literacy is when the  main character asks the Raven to tell him if "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” (Poe, The Raven). 

Death is something human kind has feared since the beginning of times, but is it that death is another beginning, maybe we will be better on another life in which suffering is not part of our daily living and happiness is a rule. In the last years philosophers have said that "life is dying, every birthday, every day, every month and every year means you are getting closer to your death, but while you are death its life, because you know that one is never going to end".

Religion has also interfered in what it has to be said about this phenomena that happens to everyone. Buddhist believe in rebirth and ending up in a social class depending on what you did in your last life. Christians believe ing god and think that when you die you will be by his side, and although people deny the existence of ghost many people think they are part of our daily living.

In this poem our author thinks that death means going to another life, a life where you will be better and things like a broken heart will just be a forgotten memory. Now a question you have to ask yourself is what do you think happens after you die?

Gabriela