If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” (“Brainy Quotes”). Edgar Allan Poe had a very odd impact on literature. He had introduced many writers to a new style of writing and perception. An author he impacted greatly was Conan Doyle. Poe expressed himself through dark and melancholy poems. MAjority of his poems, such as “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, and many more are based on loss. This matched how he perceived the world. To conclude, Edgar Allan Poe introduced the world of writing to creativity and theatrics. (“Poetry Foundation”).
To begin with, Edgar Allen Poe was a very interesting man. He was inspired to write by his wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (“Goodreads”). He had a very interesting way in portraying his …show more content…
For example, symbolism is shown in how the raven repeats one word throughout the poem, “Nevermore.” The poem has a dark and dreary tone, which is trying to show how the man in the poem is upset about losing his love, Lenore. This man is a young student who is mourning in his chamber alone, when he gets a knock on his door. The knock was a strange raven who continually taunts him about his lost love. To emphasize, Poe used sense devices such as hyperbole to add emphasis about how the narrator was feeling about the loss of his young love. (“Shmoop.com”). A hyperbole that he used in “The Raven” was, “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before...” (“Study.com”). An example of him using sense devices was when he wrote, “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming.”, which represents a metaphor. For the poem’s rhythm, Poe made his format for his poems have the first and third line of every stanza have internal rhyme. To conclude, the theme of “The Raven” was to portray a man’s undying devotion and loss that could not be diminished from the death