Haunted
by demons, Poes narrator is at the mental crossroads of nostalgia and melancholy. His resting
awareness involves disturbed ruminations of lost love, personified by Poes iconic object of
doomed passion, . From there, his voice shifts to an to a more existential expression or query:
that of humanitys fate as a pawn of the Unknownthat the mystery at the bottom of life can never
be resolved.
Grieving is a strange, psychosomatic experience; its
characterized by the abrupt onset of waves of sadness. (In Poes time, what we conceive as
clinical mental illness, would have been thought of as more of a spiritual malaise.)
s appearance coheres his phantasms from a passive to active concern. Materially, and in
the text, this is indicated by the difference in the refrainfrom essentially This it is, and
nothing more to the definitive and finite Nevermore!
This refrain
formalizes the tenses and underscores the borderline of passive and active, all of which dont
represent conventional past and/present tense as much as provide emotional markers for the
narrators different flights of fancy or his state.
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