personal response

Title:

The Raven

Author:

Edgar Allan Poe

Genre:

poem

Setting:

Dark, cold December night, a man's room. (17th century)

Point of View:

 st person's point of view

Main Character:

Poet and the raven

Theme:

Love is so powerful, it may effect one's both physical and mental behavior. ( Ex: In the poem, the poet is reading the old book and try to escape Lenore's death. But he can't. he image Lenore is being any where with him.)

Literary device:

Assonance (repeat of vowel sounds ); Alliteration (repeat of consonant sounds); rhyme scheme (the pattern of rhyme) metaphor (a figure of speech in which a writer describe something by calling it something else); melancholy (a deep and mysteriously beautiful sadness); synopsis (brief summary); repetition (a device used to emphasize the important of words and phrases, often used in persuasive writing and poetry. Words, sounds, phrases, and patterns can be repeated).

 

Mood:

 

 

Suspenseful, sentimental, sad, suspicious.

 

 

Summary:

One dark December night, a poet is feeling tired and sad. He is reading old books to escape his grief over the death of his love, Lenore, when he hears a rapping on his door. He wonders who is visiting so late, but when he opens the door, he sees no one. He hears only a voice saying "Lenore." He calls out, "Lenore?" but there is no answer. He hears the knock again, and this time when he opens the door, he sees a raven, who flies in and sits on the head of a statue over the door. When asked its name, the raven says, "Nevermore." The poet wonders what the raven means. Is it to comfort him? Is it to frighten him? The poet tells the raven to leave, but the bird refuses and remains forever above the poet's door.