Before
I start talking about if these values are or aren’t in the story i am going to
explain the meaning of each value. Citizenship has the meaning of state of
living in a particular area or town and behaving in a way that other people who
live in that área will expect you, and the value of commitment means the state
or quality of being dedicated to a cause activity, or to be dedicated to do something
,etc. The Raven is a poem that can be also considered as a story about a man
trying to forget a lost love but he never succeeds, and this story has a dark
mood and depressing theme. In my personal opinion, one of these 2 values is in
the story. The reason why i am saying there is one value in this poem is
because i believe it is represented like in an abstract way that is not
literally mentioned in this poem. The reason why i am saying there is only 1
value is because there is a lack of citizenship that is very characteristic in
a grieving process. As we read “The Raven” the author Edgar Allan Poe shows us
this lack of citizenship by making the main character in a very depressed way
and he is showing how big is the sadness the author is feeling. The reasons i
believe commitment is in this poem is because we can infer that the main
character is very commited with his lover, we can infer this because we see the
depression he is feeling and how sad he is feeling because of the fact that his
lover named lenore is dead. Another way i can see commitment in this story is
in the fact that the raven is very commited to stay in the house of the author
and is stubborn to say just one Word that is “nevermore”. As i read this
spectacular poem that is called “The Raven” i can notice that the author that
is in a very depressed tone and this causes the value of citizenship to be
missing in this story because as we read we see that the main character is like
closed in his feelings because of lenore´s recent death. Also in this poem we
can see the value of commitment in another aspect that is when the main
character is trying to understand why is the raven saying the Word “nevermore”
and where did this raven come from. His commitment in making the questions and
trying to understand everything. In conclusión this poem i believe has the
value of commitment because of all of the details that make this poem to be
depressing and because of the many questions the author have, for example when
the main character is trying to understand the reason why this raven is in his
chamber door saying the same Word over and over, and when he starts trying to
understand if this raven is a celestial being, if is coming from hell or if
this raven is his dead lover called lenore. And the reason i believe in this
poem there is not citizenship is because of the fact that in the definition of
citizenship we say that is the state of living in a particular área and
behaving in a particular way that people in that área will expect you and in
the poem we see that the main character is very depressed and emotionally
closed because of the fact he is very sad by the reason of his lover “Lenore”
death and his inside battle trying to deal with the pain he feels because of
her lost.
