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Analyzing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

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“The Raven”, originally published in 1845 by Edgar Allen Poe, became an overnight sensation. Poe, who had been cursed with illnesses within his family, used a very methodical approach to write a poem about a man mourning the loss of his wife. Poe spend the end of his life and wrote the poem “The Raven” in Baltimore, Maryland. This poem was so influential that the state named their NFL football team after it. Poe uses onomatopoeia, rhyme, and words with negative connotations to instill a melancholy mood on the reader. Poe uses two lines “But the fact is I was napping” and “That I scarce was sure I heard you” to help the reader realize what kind of state of mind the narrator is in. Poe wants us to understand that the narrator is in a delirious
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