Diction In The Raven

The Raven is a very famous poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1845. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, the speaker is depressed about his lost love Lenore. This poem offers a look into the effects of depression after the great loss of a loved one. The poet uses imagery and effective diction to convey the speaker’s horror at the raven’s presence, and his grief for his dead Lenore. Poe structurally builds the reader’s tensions by rhythmically increasing the narrator’s plea to ‘leave my loneliness unbroken’. The poem is a dark reflection on the lost love, death and loss of hope the speaker is experiencing. It dramatizes the emotions of the poet, who has lost his beloved, and tries to distract himself from his sadness. His solitude is disturbed by a single visitor a Raven. Through this poem Poe uses symbolism, imagery and tone to enforce his theme of sadness and loss.

The Raven is a popular poem, known for its pleasing and dramatic qualities. The meter of the poem is mostly trochaic octameter, with eight

Poe sought only a dumb beast that was capable of producing human-like sounds without understanding the words' meanings. Once you have read The Raven out loud, you probably will be at ease to the idea of a talking raven. But think about it, if I ever heard a bird talk, I would freak out from shock. At the very least, I think it screams supernatural. The speaker thinks a lot about where this bird is from, whether it's a demon, or even a prophet. He also ponders deep issues, such as the afterlife and the existence of God. Due to the late hour of the poem's setting and to the narrator's mental turmoil, the poem calls the narrator's reliability into question. At first the narrator attempts to give his experiences a rational explanation, but by the end of the poem, he has ceased to give the raven any interpretation beyond that which he invents in his own