Alliteration In The Raven

The Raven analysis draft
The Raven is a poem, written by Edgar Allen Poe, who through gothic and mysterious themes tells a story of nostalgia, loneliness, grief and death. The reason for all his despair is because of his lost love, Lenore.

Poe uses alliteration and rhyme to captivate the reader, setting the poem into a rhythmical pattern. He does this from the very first paragraph; “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”. In these sentences, Poe also tells us that he is someone who feels tired and weak, yet he is still up on a dim night reading a strange, ancient book, setting a mood of mystery and darkness. Other examples of rhyme in the poem is “Eagerly I
He remembers it was a “bleak December”, December being the first month of winter, making the nights long and cold. Poe also uses depressing words such as “dying”, “ghost”, “sorrow”, etc. He also tells the reader that he’s been trying to escape his mood by reading about sorrow, in hopes of forgetting about Lenore, or possibly even trying to make himself feel better knowing that other people have been in the same state as he. Poe also uses the repetition of the word “nevermore”, giving a sense of
He does this from the very first paragraph; “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”. In these sentences, Poe also tells us that he is someone who feels tired and weak, yet he is still up on a dim night reading a strange, ancient book, setting a mood of mystery and darkness. Other examples of rhyme in the poem is “Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow, From my books surcease of sorrow” where Poe describes that he wishes an escape from his confronting reality, and “Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -This it is, and nothing more,'” where he tries to convince himself that it is only a person knocking on his