"The Raven" Literary Analysis

 

This poem "The Raven by Edgar Allan Pom is described dark and dull midnight at 12: 00, as he was feeling and tired, he was thinking about strange old folk tales. When he was almost asleep, he heard a tapping someone knocking on his door. "Only the knocking and nothing else.' The wind blew into the room, each curtain amazed him with terrible fear. "Who's knocking at my door?" Nobody answered, he felt so scared. He opened the door, but nobody was there except the darkness. He only heard one word. A word in a very low voice, "Lenore'. The sound was echoing "Lenore, and the knocking noise was louder than before. It is the wind, and the old Raven, just tell him about hell his name is what does it mean?" The author, he was born in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He mother died when he was still a baby. He had a short and unhappy life.

I would describe the mood of this poem with sadness and suspense. For example this stanza from the book: ' From my books surcease of sorrow, -sorrow for the lost Lenore - for the rate and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -Namecless here for evermore. It represented the mood of sadness because his angle Lenore left him, he lost her. He felt sorrowful and sad. Another stanza that represented the mood of suspense is; "Deep into that darkness peeving, long I stood these wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, and the only word these spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!" this I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" Merely this sad nothing more.' It was suspense because at the beginning of the story it said these was someone tapping on the chamber door, but now, when he opened the door, there wasn't anyone but darkness.

My personal response t poetry is I like his poem. It is scary, confusing, I like the words, they sound. I like the subject, because it conveys the poem's mysteriousness cause I understand the ancient words. The way the words appear on the pages is mysterious. The mood makes me feel mysterious, melancholy, sadness, suspense, and the why the author used the repeating and simile. The way it make me remember is the author used assonance, repeating and simile to make it easy to remember. I like the poem and it can make me think a lot of had difference feel in it and the way author used literature element in the poem.