The Raven And Antigonish Compare And Contrast

Poems are made to express thoughts and feelings of people. As a result, the mood and theme of the poem is set by the author. The poem could be delightful and cheery, but it could also be dark and dreary. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, and "Antigonish" by Hughes Mearns, are a good example of poems that relate to the latter. These poems do a great job at exploring the darkness and madness in the human mind. Therefore, "The Raven" and "Antigonish" are both similar as they explore the theme of madness, but are also unlike each other because of the way the madness is expressed.
"The Raven" is a poem that covers what the speaker feels when they go through the loss of their loved one. To start, the poem begins with the speaker pondering about their

For a start, there is a surplus of rhymes in "Antigonish". This is evident at the end of line 3 and 4 in the second stanza, the two words, "hall '" and "all," rhyme. Furthermore, there are more rhymes in the poem and most if not all are the rhyming of end sounds. The author of "Antigonish" used more simple poetic devices to set the mood and enhance the reading experience of the poem. When the poem is compared to "The Raven", the vocabulary of "Antigonish" is much simpler and overall, it is easier to understand. Repetition is used in both poems to emphasize certain parts of the poem. For example. in "Antigonish", the line," He wasn 't there again today," was repeated twice. This line succeeded the line when the speaker claimed to see a man that was not there. Similarly. in "The Raven", repetition is used often to get the reader to understand the emotions of the speaker. To illustrate, the line about the raven being a prophet and being a thing of evil was repeated twice, just to emphasize the speaker 's point. The poem is enhanced with the use of repetition in both cases. In "Antigonish", saying that the speaker, "met a man who wasn 't there," only to state right after, "He wasn 't there again today," causes the readers to think about what the author is talking about. The readers need to analyze the words of the author to understand what is going on. In "The Raven", repetition is used to help readers understand the speaker 's point of view. Unlike "The Raven", "Antigonish" is less complex and does not include any allusions. "The Raven" alludes to," the Night 's Plutonian shore," which further helps the reader understand the poem. An illusion is capable of adding an extra dimension to a poem that one may not have thought about. To contrast, there is nothing that the reader needs to know about prior to completely