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    The mood of the poem "The Raven" can be described in many words. In a single word, it can be considered "Gothic”. More specifically, however, the mood is mysterious, melancholy, and even slightly morbid. Edgar Allan Poe created the mysterious mood in his poem by using figurative language, imagery, setting, tone, and the speaker to help enhance his writing. Poe uses figurative language as one of the ways to add to the mood and tone of his poems. Personification is one of the many types of figurative

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    The Pit and the Pendulum The “Pit and the Pendulum”, is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1842, describing a person in the most dire of situations, awaiting death in a pit. The story is set during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, where the narrator has been sentenced to live in a pit and await death. During this time he continually wonders what will happen to him, until looking up, awaking from a drug-induced sleep, he sees a swinging scythe, positioned directly over his heart, dropping

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    Have you ever felt that your grief could be alive? In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”, the Narrator is suffering from the grief of the passing of his beloved Lenore. Attempting to palliate with reading, a raven flies into his study; The narrator first feels as though the raven is a good sign and asks questions about his Lenore, only to receive the response “Nevermore”(48) which aggravates him. Furthermore, he apprises the raven to leave, but it stays forever. Poe’s poem represents grief and mourning

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    "Emotions" The speaker of 'The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe , undergoes a range of emotions during the telling of his tale. He begins his story in a depressed mood due to the death of his love , Lenore. When he meets the raven, his emotional state runs from Respect to Hatred then to terrified. Poe demonstrates the speakers attitude in order to explain how the attitude change of the speaker shows that he will never recover from the grief he suffers for the lost of Lenore. Throughout the

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    Martha Garbarini Ms. Hopkins P3 H English II September 23, 2015 Wondering Nevermore Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential authors of his time, being highly regarded as a pivotal figure of Romanticism in American Literature. For many, the name brings to mind images of madmen and dark, twisted tales of fate. In Poe’s work, he had a way of impacting his readers deeply, through language choice, all, and elaborate imagery. In one of Poe’s most acclaimed works, “The Raven,” unity of effect

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    The Albatros is a poem written by Charles Baudelaire that presents a rhyme scheme that remains throughout the whole poem. These verses contain different representations. The author employs different poetic figures which are used to create images that symbolize or represent the poetic voice what the author wants to convey. In the first stanza, the speaker talks of a bird called albatross and sailors who are in a boat, in constant movement, these sailors usually marry these majestic birds for just

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    In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe there are many themes and archetypes to convey the message to the reader. My poster expresses these themes through colors, images and symbols. On my poster the color purple shows up multiple times in the text to show the reader a back round message. The color purple is an archetype that represents the un natural and supernatural. One of the supernatural occurrences in the poem is when the narrator states “ And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple

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    Mood In The Raven

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    "The Raven" is the most famous of Poe's poems, notable for its melodic and dramatic qualities. The meter of the poem is mostly trochaic octameter, with eight stressed-unstressed two-syllable feet per lines. Combined with the predominating ABCBBB end rhyme scheme and the frequent use of internal rhyme, the trochaic octameter and the refrain of "nothing more" and "nevermore" give the poem a musical lilt when read aloud. Poe also emphasizes the "O" sound in words such as "Lenore" and "nevermore" in

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    In Poe’s poem “The Raven”, and the short story “Ligeia,” the author use of symbols explores the different elements in both of the gothic works to build a dreary and gloomy ambiance and mood. “The Raven” and “Ligeia” are both about loss and grief; the narrators, both have lost a woman of incomparable talents and beauty. The author, Poe uses the raven and the bust of Pallas in the poem “The Raven”, to show the grief of loneliness and separation of the narrator whose heart years for his beloved Lenore

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    There are many types of literary devices and techniques used in the poem called “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Most of the techniques include alliteration, repetition, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia, and end rhymes. “The Raven” was a poem about a person who lost their loved one who he called “Lenore”, then finding a raven and communicating to it about his feelings. Throughout the poem, a certain rhyme pattern is found. The rhyme pattern consist of the second line of the stanza rhyming with the fourth

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