While reading a story, it is un-noticeable that the theme can coincide with the setting. In some stories, it might be unchallenging, but there are some writers that do make it challenging. For instance, Edgar Allen Poe’s works, describe vivid details. His themes provide emotions and scenery – which gives a better understand or feel. The emotions that Poe shows in the story are generally a dark type of feeling – making the theme to be related to that type of feeling and emotion. In Poe’s work of “The Raven” he describes setting types that benefit in understanding the theme, which is life after a death or grief, loss, madness, and even love. In the beginning of “The Raven” Poe states, “a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary … and a curious volume of forgotten love” (Bayum 637). When he uses the words midnight and dreary those show an emotion of dark as well as eerie. Since, dreary means bleak and lifeless they relate to depression. With the words, weak and weary – they both mean lifeless as well as extreme exhaustion. Feeling tired and the lack of doing anything are the signs of depression too. Grieving shows many kinds of emotions, while during the time of grieving the feeling that will be felt is sadness – that follows in pursuit of …show more content…
Before he describes the intriguing feeling he uses terms that describe the curtains as desolate and doubt. The terms that he uses means a lack of uncertainty - Poe, in this work, questions many different ideas – life and the world, and the scientific aspect such as what happens will happen when everything ends (Freedman). The term desolate relates to making an area empty as well as barren. While standing in the chamber door - Poe describes that the chamber is seeping with a looming feeling of darkness. Then he goes on to explain that there is a chilling silence and the darkness brings out the eerie feeling in the