Analysis Of Author’s Style In The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

“The Raven” is a poem published in 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe. He is imagining with a gothic thematic a man is in his chamber, in the middle of the night, hearing a visitor tapping at the door. The poem tells the story of a man who, on a cold night of December, reads a book about a 'forgotten' doctrine to forget the loss of the woman he loved, Lenore. He is half asleep when a tapping on the door wakes him up. It is, composed of eighteen six-line stanzas rhymed in ABCBBB. It follows a poetic form, a traditional pattern of love poetry, a sing in front of a closed chamber, which here is the expression of the lover who has lost his beloved.

The narrator set in a Gothic scene, in a lonesome apartment, a 'bleak December' warmed by a decaying fireplace. Every night, he dreams about his beloved, Lenore, it affects is emotions even he can still control them, although he is tired of his loneliness. The sentence 'Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore,'' also punctuates the exclamations of the narrator, and it show the calmness of the room. There is lots of assonances used to show the melancholy and lonely sound of the poem, like with 'O' sound in words such as 'Lenore' or 'Nevermore', it's establishing the atmosphere of the apartment.

Alliteration is easily identifiable in nearly every section of Poe’s masterpiece; three instances are apparent in the first stanza alone. The poem utilizes soft syllables with the words “weak and weary… nodded, nearly napping,” which effectively communicate a feel of meditation. However, Poe quickly dissipates this atmosphere by inserting a harsh, sharp sound with the words “tapping” and “rapping. ” Hence, within the first two sentences, the repetition of specific consonant resonances is concisely employed to evoke an emotive reaction.

Also, within the first two sentences, the repetition of consonant resonances is employed to elicit an emotive reaction. Used throughout the rest of the poem, alliteration is used in order to express specific sounds and feelings that are associated with certain actions and occurrences. Poe is also repeating words one after one, like “sorrow- sorrow” and “tapping, tapping”. There is also a repetition of words and phrases in closely, it creates a hopeless ambiance, almost as if the narrator were unconsciously murmuring the words twice because of a depression.