To My Mother Diction

Born to two impoverished actors, Edgar Allan Poe arose from calamity. After losing his mother to tuberculosis, he moved into his aunt’s house, where met his wife, Virginia. Later, his wife underwent the same fate as his mother. As a poet and short storyteller, Edgar Allan Poe has exploited numerous poetic devices to cope with the losses of the most imperative women in his life. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “To My Mother”, he experimented with the tone, theme, and rhyme scheme. Ordinarily, Poe wrote his poetry as despondent and enthralling literary works; however, Poe derailed from his predictable tone to an endearing and thoughtful poem for his mother-in-law. The author of the article “The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe” described Poe’s regular tone as, “a pervasive tone of melancholy,” (Zott). This description is accurate for the majority of his poetry, for instance, “Alone” and “The Black Cat”; nevertheless, the diction in “To My Mother” demonstrates how the poem is the exception to Poe’s trite tune. For example, Poe wrote, “None so devotional as that of ‘Mother,’ Therefore by that dear
Generally, Edgar Allan Poe used a dark and dreary theme, most likely involving the death of his mothers; this is not the case for “To My Mother”. The theme of the poem is a mother does not always have to be the one who gave birth to one. The loss of his mother did not leave a significant emotional scar on him due to his young age. The poem illustrated the method Poe used to overcome the death of his biological mother because he wrote to his mother-in-law instead of his biological mother, which signifies a stronger relationship with his mother-in-law, in addition to a greater impact on him from his mother-in-law. Moreover, “To My Mother” tells the reader that Edgar Allan Poe was swift to replace his mother with his aunt. The rhyme scheme incorporates the tone and theme of Edgar Allan Poe’s