My Poem Analysis
By Isabella Partain
The poem, “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story riddled with emotion. The theme of the story shows a man struggling to cope with his grief over the loss of his beloved lenore. All the narrator wants is to receive release from his sorrow. In the poem the author uses devices such as repetition and rhyme to bring the theme to light.
The use of repetition is very important in this poem; the most notable words being “Lenore,” and “ nevermore.” The narrator had been so lonely after his loves passing, and he cannot get her off of his mind; which is why he was trying to distract himself by reading books at midnight on a bleak december night in his chamber. The repeating of Lenore reminds the reader of the narrator’s sadness and grief over his loss. The repeating of the word nevermore is also a reminder of his lost love and he will never again be with her. “ But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp light gloating o’er she shall press, ah, nevermore!” (School, A. H. (2012). Prentice Hall: Literature, Grade 9, Part 2, Common Core Edition. [Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781256493501/) Sitting on that chair with his head resting on the lavish cushion he is reminded that Lenore will never again sit there.
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In this stanza, “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”(School, A. H. (2012). Prentice Hall: Literature, Grade 9, Part 2, Common Core Edition. [Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from