What is the main meaning or message of "The Raven"?

In
addition to its meditation on mortality, byalso examines communication, both its
possibilities and its limitations.

The Raven is an example of Romanticism,
a genre of literature that sought to examine and communicate the emotions and mental states note
addressed by the ideals of Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment. Authors associated with
Romanticism focused on the irrational, the subconscious, and what Sigmund Freud would later term
the uncanny in contrast to Enlightenment era writers who looked to rationality and logic.
Stories in the Romantic genre described peoples bewilderment by the unexplained, the limitations
of logic, and their attempts to communicate their impressions of supernatural
experiences.

The poems famous opening lines signal the rational intentions of
its , a student searching for information:

Once upon a
midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and
curious volume of forgotten lore,

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