The Role Of Imitation In The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe
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The word Imitation most nearly means an act of imitating a person's speech or mannerisms, especially for comic effect.(English Dictionary).In the imitation , Poe goes through how their life was mystery and a dream to them as a young child and the “dream” was filled of crazy thoughts that they had about their life.Then they started to imitate their “ ancestors “ and the speaker says that their life was nothing before they started to imitate them. To convey the depthness of their mindset he uses metaphors , puns and , similes to convey that.
The mindset of a young child is more free and immature than the mind of a grown child.
As a child he imagined “a dark unfathomed tide of interminable pride-- A mystery , and a dream,”
(Poe 1-3)which…show more content… (Poe 8-10) . If it was not for the dream of the dead people then the speaker would not be the person he is today.
As Poe begins to grow he passionately says “Let none of earth inherit , That vision of my spirit; he begins no to want anyone to be able to be like him in that he dreams of people that has passed on already and he way of thinking of life as a mystery and a dream. Moreover , “Those thoughts I would control, As a spell upon his soul. Poe is comparing the way the speaker would control thoughts to a spell. As time goes on “And that light time have past,And my worldly rest hath gone “ (Poe 16-17) the speaker gets older and dies and goes on to another world where they can not dream no more “With a sigh as it passed on: I care not though it perish , With a thought I then did cherish) (Poe 18-20) the speaker did not care that he had died but the dreams and thoughts that he had he he missed them and cherished them