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The Appeal Of Poe's The Raven

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Poe achieved his goal of making “The Raven” appeal to both critical and popular tastes by incorporating many different ideas. First of all, Poe uses a form of repetition and rhyme that engages the reader. For example, in the first stanza, Poe writes “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping/As of some one gently rapping...”. This is very appealing to the popular tastes as they are not bored by reading it. Moving on, the poem appeals to critical tastes as he uses what he calls the “effect” (as described in his essay). Another way he attempts to make his poem appeal to the general public is by making the length of the poem reasonable. He stated in his essay that he though a length of about one hundred lines is not too much
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