Summarize how the speaker views the raven over the course of the poem. cite evidence in you answer.

The speaker is in a melancholic state in the poem. He views the raven as a visitor who had come knocking. As the poem progresses, he attaches more importance to the raven.

The points that prove the speaker’s connection to the raven are:

Thus, his views on the raven are elevated throughout the poem. The raven is suitable to the sad setting of the poem and the poet’s mind.

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Summary of how the speaker views the raven:

Explanation:

At first, the speaker hears a strange noise, and without knowing that it was the raven, he detracts from it by saying: "" Tis some visitor, "I muttered," tapping at my chamber door. Only this, and nothing more. "

Then he uses the raven to calm his thoughts about Lenore and repeats again: "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -This it is, and nothing more."

The presence of the raven begins to bother the speaker, who tried to "apologize" to the visitor for not having heard him: "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping. And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door. That I scarce was sure I heard you "

As the story progresses, the speaker begins to be tortured by this raven that the only thing he says is "Nevermore."

Finally, this despair leads him to realize that he will no longer find another love like Lenore, and that she will never return: “It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name LenoreClasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).