The Raven is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1845. It follows the unidentified main characters as he slowly drifts off into insanity. It begins with a late dready night in December, sitting in a room, nearly falling asleep. Thinking about his lost love, Lenore. There was a tapping, "As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." When he opens the door, there's no one there except for darkness. In fear, he hears the word "Lenore" and murmurs back. He goes back to his chamber, and once again hearing a knock, louder this time. He assumes that it's just the wind and nothing more. He opens a window and in comes a raven, it perches upon a bust of Pallas. Naturally, he asks the bird for its name, and shocked when the bird responded, but it only responded with "Nevermore." He talks to it some more, asking questions. But the bird only responds with "Nevermore." It's clear the man becomes agitated, thus yelling at the burd to leave him alone. The bird remains there, sitting. …show more content…
Like metaphors, repetition, alletration, imagery, onomatopoeias. The rhyme and meter of the poem is Rhyming Trochaic Octave. Internal rhymes are also common throughout, a good example being "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping," Also, along with figurative language, there is an interesting allusion, first presented in stanza 14 line 4, "Respite—respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore!" Nepenthe being an allusion to a drug described in Homer's Odyssey, a drug which bansihes grief or troubles in a person's mind. When it is used, it does make sense, because since the beginning he wanted to forget the memories he had of