The "Raven" is a poem written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. This poem talks about that in one dark December midnight, a poet is feeling tired and sad. He is reading ols books to escape thinking about his dead wife, 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, but there is no answer. He hears the knock again, and this time when he opens the door, he sees a raven, which flies in and sits on the head of statue over the door. The raven says his name is "Nevermore". The poet wonders what the raven means. The poet tells the raven to leave, but the bird refuses and remains forever above the poet's door.
The mood that the poem expresses is a deep and mysteriously beautiful sadness. The poet used the poetic devices to convey the poem, such as assonance, rhyme, and repetition. Assonance is the poets will sometimes repeat a vowel sound in a line or words. An example for this is "For the rate and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Rhyme is the use of identical sounds in some part of a poem, usually at the end of words or lines of verse. The rhyme in the Raven is like in first stanza "dreary, weary, lore, tapping, door, door and more." Repetition is advice used to emphasize the importance of words and phrases, often used in persuasive writing and poetry. Words, sounds phrases, and patterns can be repeated. For example like "Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, soon again I heard a tapping."
I like this poem because they used the old language to convey this poem and that is different from the others like a specific poem. Also I like the rhymes at the end of each stanza and at the middle of the poem, some contents scared me. Like when the poet opens the door, there is no one at the door. The rhyme fits the mood of the poem becoming mysterious.