When it became apparent that Poe's gentle, plump, teenaged wife was incurable, the poet went to pieces. He had periodically gone on drinking sprees, but now he began to use opium heavily as well.
So we see that just as in the poem, the character is almost drained of his willpower and drive by the finality of the raven
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