To a Waterfowl and The Raven are very different poems. Though they both talk about evening and nighttime, To a Waterfowl, has a much more hopeful and bright connotation, while The Raven is very dark and brings up the eerie connotation that the night, and the witching hour, or midnight.
To a Waterfowl is about the narrator of the poem seeing a waterfowl and wondering why and where the waterfowl is flying. The narrator also warns the waterfowl that the path that it is taking may not be a safe path, but the narrator realizes that God has guided the waterfowl to where it is now, and He will continue to guide it. This makes the narrator wonder about their own life and realize that God is also guiding them throughout their life. It is a much more positive poem than The Raven.
The Raven is a much darker poem. It is about a man who has lost his love, Lenore, and hears a tapping at his door and window. What he sees outside is a raven. The raven starts to speak to him, saying “nevermore.” The narrator ends the poem by saying that his soul will never be lifted again, because his love, Lenore, is dead. He realizes that he will not be able to see her ever again, which makes him very upset and is very different from To a Waterfowl.
These two poems are very different. One is about realizing that God is with you, while the other is about being completely alone.
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