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Citizenship and Commitment in The Raven

In this essay, I am going to show the relationship between the values of citizenship and commitment with the early 19th century poem, “The Raven” written by the famous American author, Edgar Allan Poe, that with his particular gloomy and dark style, he describes a situation in which a character is driven into insanity because an constant feeling of obsession. However, before developing the main topic, we should know first the meaning of these two values. A commitment is define as the willingness to give your time and energy for doing something that you believe in, and Citizenship is define by the Cambridge dictionary as the state of being a member of a country, and having legal rights because of this. Now we have clarify these concepts, let’s begin. At the beginning of the story, a man (the narrator) said that ones he had experience a situation in which he had fell into insanity, and he begun to describe it, but he did not said his name, neither where he came from. This means that