"I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed"

This poem is about the narrator who is describing her relationship with her lover. I thought the narrator was sort of depressed and not at all happy with the situation she was in. As the poem progresses the relationship between the two seems to end. She seems to get ride of the man because she does not feel that anything more or special will come from the relationship. She also describes that she no longer is happy with the relationship and that she will not think of the relationship in a good way or through the good times that the couple had.

"The Raven"

I took the raven very literally. I thought that it was about a guy who was trying to forget about his lover who has recently died. He is trying to for get her by reading forgoten lore. but he hears noise when he goes to investigate a raven enters whos only response to the mans questions is nevermore. the man gets angry and tells the raven to leave. he asks if he will ever be reunited with his love. but like all the other responses from the raven all he hears is nevermore. he then assums that his soul is trapped under the raven's shadow and that his soul shall not rise again.