The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is a suspenseful mystery. It is a creepy tale about a man and the raven that comes to visit him. The story has a mood of suspense and eeriness to it. There is also some sense of desperation and loneliness created by Poe and his words. Poe creates this mood by the use of repetition, the description of the setting, and the narrator's feelings. First off, Poe creates a feeling of uneasy and mystery with the repetition of words. The raven only ever responds to the narrator by saying “Nevermore.” This leaves the readers unsure of what the bird really wants. It also make a sense of unease because it makes the reader feel as though the raven knows something we don’t. It is very foreboding. The bird makes me as a reader feel very uncomfortable. It creates a dark atmosphere, just …show more content…
To explain, the narrator speaks of how it is dark in the night. He also speaks of how he alone. So when he hears a tapping at the door and opens it to see nothing there, it is very unsettling. You start to wonder what could possibly be making that noise, and why? This also plays into the earlier mentioned feeling of mystery. Speaking of connecting the feelings, the darkness and being set in the middle of the night shows an insight into another mood setting, the narrator's feelings. Third of all, we get major insight into how the narrator feels. His feelings just push the mood further into new levels of loneliness and despair. The narrator shows his loneliness when he speaks of his lost “Lenore.” It is clear he is mourning and misses this woman dearly. It is even more clear when he speaks to the raven how lonely and desperate this man is. He becomes increasingly agitated almost, the longer he speaks with the bird. Of course there is the end when he is seemingly insane and it is very depressing and melancholy. All of these things Poe put into the mood add into this