Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem The Raven, a feeling of darkness overwhelms the reader and allows him to enter the poem. Although a lot of symbolism appears in the story, it would not have the same effect without this dark setting.
Even if the feeling of darkness and cold results from the whole poem, several elements contribute greatly to this. One of these elements appears in the repetition of phrases that give the feeling of fear as if the character tried to convince him of what he says. Such a thing appears here: “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—this it is and nothing more.” (Poe)
The first sentence is even more important in this sense as we can see here: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” (Poe) This phrase sets the tone for the poem. It gives a very vivid image of loneliness, darkness and sadness. Even though this tone does not contain the majority of the meaning in the Poem, it proves essential to the effect it has on the reader.
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