("Poe, Edgar Allan ").
Moreover, throughout Poe's life, he has experienced lost and death adequately to relate to "The Raven." For this reason, there's a strong connection between his personal life experiences and the poem. Specifically speaking, when Poe lost his wife Virginia, putting the narrator and Poe in similar shoes. For five years Poe suffered watching his wife's body waste away, which stayed with him until his own death. During this period of his lifetime he was in a deep depression. Aside from losing his wife, Poe lost his mother and his father abandoned him before his third birthday. On top of that, Poe grew up with his godfather Allan Poe who never treated him as a son, his support was never whole-hearted, and only provided him with the minimal financial support. Many critics have seen Virginia's death influence on Poe's work in her five years of dying. In this case, "Ulalume, " published in December 1847, that was inspired by Virginia's death, which Poe clarified it was a memorial to his late wife ("Poe, Edgar Allan ").
Furthermore, the traumatic stress of death influences one's psychological state of mind. Mourning the period of grief that follows the lost of a loved one is a stressful period. Throughout this period mourners may withdraw from others and be almost completely preoccupied with thoughts of the loss, spending a great deal of time recalling experiences, meaning, and the emotional significance of the lost relationship (Death and Stress). During this period many mourner make intense efforts to put death out of mind, sometimes they abuse drugs or alcohol ("Mourning and Depression "). Inference to "Mourning and Depression " The narrator is searching to desperately end his sorrow by reading. To demonstrate, "Eagerly I wish the morrow; "vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow "sorrow for the lost Lenore " (Poe line 9). .
Corresponding, in "The Raven", the narrator is lamenting his deceased lover, which resulted in some symptoms of psychological disturbances.
