Poe's Use Of Modernism In The Raven By Robert Frost

Poetry is a writer’s form of complex writing with terminologies like sonnet, connotation, denotation, and lyric. Modern Poetry was formed in the early twentieth century. Artists used “evolutionary techniques of composition, such as the collage” (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-modernism). This created poems like “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe and “For Once, Then, Something” by Robert Frost. These poems are what we today call modern and there is more to be learned about it like, the use of symbolism and voice used in poems to paint a picture in our minds and for us to analyze the poems word for word trying to understand the story the writer is telling. In the poem “The Raven”, Poe uses symbolism to show what the narrator is

In the poem, Poe also states “And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore!” This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word “Lenore!” (676) This shows that Poe automatically thought that Lenore was the first person he thought that was at his door even though he knew that she was dead. Poe has a hope that she will come back and maybe what has happened to her wasn’t really reality. Poe also uses the Raven to show the evil and death that comes along with ravens. “”Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil!-” (677) Poe shows the evil that comes along with the raven probably showing that his beloved Lenore was taken by something evil. The use of symbolism in the poem helps the reader understand Poe’s use of language by painting a painting for the reader to understand the grief that Poe is going through after his lost and how it haunts him every night. In the poem “For Once, Then, Something, Frost also uses symbolism by showing the reader how the narrator is reflecting upon himself from looking into water. Frost states “Deeper

While reading the poem the voice shows the despair that Poe goes through when he realizes that Lenore isn’t at the door and that she isn’t coming back. Poe’s voice turns to anguish when he realizes that the Raven is evil and that it is there for something. “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee-by these angels he has sent thee. Respite-respite the nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!” (677) In the poem “For Once, Then, Something” the use of voice shows the reader that the narrator is finally at peace with himself when he realizes that it doesn’t matter what other people say he states “Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something”. In the beginning of the poem the narrator’s voice shows sorrow and how he can’t believe that people actually taunt him for the way that he is. Both of the authors use voice for the reader to understand the emotions of the poems and how the narrator