The Raven Mood Analysis

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Poe was a famous writer who wrote fictional stories. He was born January 19, 1809. In Boston, Massachusetts, Poe's tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story and many of his works. Growing up Poe’s life had a lot of ups and downs. Every woman that he loved died of an illness. His real dad abounded him and his family when Poe was two-years old. He then was adopted and not long his adopted mom died from Tuberculosis. He was left with his adopted dad; his adopted dad did not really care for him at all. Poe had a drinking problem during his career. Poe did have kids and they were scattered all around Richmond. All of Poe’s work showed what was really going on in his life. From death to heartbreaks of people who were so …show more content…
And those are the moods because it is something that has never been experienced before. Such as mysterious, arousing superstitious fear, or dread. The narrator does not know what to think of this black bird it pecks for admittance to his lonely dark chamber. Then the bird just makes himself at home by sitting on top of the door. The emotions I got from the story was sadness and pain because of what the author was going through. The Raven contains several settings all the settings were giving by clues the clues are in stanzas 1, 2, 3, and 7. In the first stanza, the speaker provides the reader with the time, which was midnight and very dreary in other words a dreary midnight. But the main setting of the story is the chamber mansion. The setting gives the story a dark gloomy mood. Which makes it evil and by it being in a chamber it really defines the meaning of death at its …show more content…
One main allegory symbol is Lenore; this particular lady is the main focus of the speaker's obsessive thoughts. He brings her up constantly, and even when he tries to think about something else, he always ends back up at Lenore. Another allegory symbol is night’s plutonian shore, this is the kind of big, spooky, complicated image that Poe just loves. It sounds spiffy and poetic, and it also manages to ball a bunch of mysterious images into one phrase. The phrase has three words, and also three parts which includes the night, plutonian an allusion to the Roman god of the underworld, and Shore which is a little more secretive, it may be a metaphor that helps us to see the night as a vast ocean, washing up against the edge of this
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