- Compare/contrast the different views of nature that are being presented in the poems. Refer to the list of classical and romantic characteristics and provide specific examples from the poems to support your analysis.
Each poem has a different view of what is to be focused upon. The poem “To a Waterfowl” focuses more on representing peace and tranquility, a calming environment, and so on. This is known as the classical views of nature. Unlike the first poem, “The Raven” focuses more on emotion, imagination, and also how to get beyond this world and into the afterlife. This explanation is known as romanticism. Also, another important factor is that the first poem is rational, while the second poem is more irrational. “To a Waterfowl” taken place in the evening, in the woods. While the speaker is in the woods, he spots a hawk and tries to find the message that the hawk is giving. The universal message that the speaker received from this experience was that God will guide you in the right path. Also, the impression that is taken from this poem is that it is calm and can be didactic. In “The Raven”, the setting takes place at midnight in the speaker’s home, specifically, in his bedroom. When the raven had come to the window of the speaker’s room, he had seen this as looking for an answer to see if he would be reunited with his love, Lenore, along with seeing if he would have a good experience in the afterlife. After “talking” with the raven, its answer didn’t insure him in knowing that he would have a good experience in the afterlife. Looking back at this, the overall impression of the scene would be chaotic. From examining both of these poems, they show that each had some sort of supernatural experience involved in them. They also focus on only one bird in the poems. Each bird gives them an experience that leads them to the answers of their questions, either connected to religion or to the afterlife.
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