The Writing Style Of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

Have you ever read a piece of dark literature and felt unpleasant because of

what you just read? Do you feel a sense of dread and despair? Do you think to yourself

who could write something this dark? Well, there was a gentleman that was known for

his dark literature that toyed with people’s emotions and his name was Edgar Allen Poe.

Now if you say the name Edgar Allen Poe most people will think about murderers and

psychopaths, burials, and people returning from the dead. First let’s find out who was

Poe. What kind of man was he and what made him into this writer that gave people a

feeling of wretchedness when reading his works.

Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. His

parents Elizabeth

Historians say Poe was very much happy in his marriage and

we know that if something 's takes away the only thing that makes you happy then you

can be broken as a person.

What was Poe’s writing style for The Raven? The writing he use for The Raven

and many of his work was called gothic. This type of writing style involves death, terror,

and anything that has to due with dark themes. Again due to the multiply deaths in

Poe’s life this gothic came natural to him and people during that time period like it as

well because the dark themes sold more than anything else. People may have enjoyed these dark

themes because maybe they wanted to know how it felt to feel scared or horrified. Even in

today 's world people pay well for good scare whether it be a book, a show, or a movie.

The literary devices Poe uses in The Raven makes the reader pay attention because it is

helping the reader understand the poem and gives the reader a little puzzle to unlock. Repetition

is used in the poem, from beginning to end with the words evermore and nothing more, it is said

at the end of every stanza. Using these word creates a gloomy tone throughout the poem.

The Raven use of the word nevermore when acknowledging the narrator 's question

declares that hope is nowhere to be found. “Night’s Plutonian shore” is said in the poem and is

an example of a allusion. Poe is referring to Hades who is the god of the dead. Why use this

quote? It is an example of death to explaining what going to happen or what already happened in

the story. Poe put metaphors in the poem so the reader can paint a picture in his/her head when

reading the story. For example, “And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the

floor” is a metaphor. In this line the narrator is explaining that the fire dying out to him looks like

ghosts on the ground.

What is this story trying to tell readers? What does it mean? Well depending on the

person reading the story there are multiple ways to interpret this story. For example, is there

really a raven speaking to the narrator or is the narrator stricken with such grief for his dead wife

has he gone completely mad and just imaging a raven talking to him. Maybe the narrator wants

answers so badly he will take it from anywhere including his imagination. One thing