In The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe in lines 10-11, this is where we first hear Lenore's name. At almost the same moment, we hear that she is lost; it does not take us to long to learn that the narrator (lover) is also completely filled with love for this woman who is now dead. This is a major conflict within the narrator's mind. This lover (perhaps a student) is so distraught by the loss of his love that it leads him to the brink of insanity.

Unequivocally, the conflict in Poe's poem is an internal one. Poe states the nature of this inner conflict early in the poem. The lover has been trying to achieve peace, "surcease of sorrow for the lost Lenore" by burying himself in old books and trying to forget about her. But, the Raven seems to him to be a messenger from the spirit world who has been sent to him just to keep reminding him of his loss.

Instead of trying to forget about Lenore, he is forced to think about her more poignantly. So he imagines that her ghost has come back to visit him. He asks the Raven if there is "balm in Gilead," which is equivalent to asking if what the Bible has to say about immortality and resurrection has any truth. Can the bird offer him any comfort? In the end, the narrator is defeated in his attempts to deal with his loss.

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