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The raven - Citizenship and commitment

We are now going to talk about the story The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and see if the two values called commitment and citizenship belong to the story. This story’s theme and main focus is that about a man who just lost a very important person in his life, a woman called Lenore. He is seen very visibly hurt about the passing of the woman, thinking about her at all times, and the moment he heard a sound and id not encounter anything the first thing he thought of was her, and from this we can observe how much his mind has put itself in a state of guilt and constant reminding of her and her memory. This feelings are also used by Edgar Allan Poe in the form of The Raven, who comes to visit the man and does not leave him alone, constantly bugging him, annoying him, enraging him and making him go insane with the concussion of the Ravens words “nevermore”. This feelings and themes are very strong in the story, but in my point of view and opinion, these themes like obsession, rage and guilt ha