GHENT UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ARTS AND PHILOSOPHY Master‘s Dissertation: Musical Elements in Edgar Allan Poe‘s ―The Raven‖: A Literary Study EVIE HEMERIJCKX MASTER OF COMPARATIVE MODERN LITERATURE PROMOTOR: PROF. DR. Vander Motten DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE ACADEMIC YEAR 2008 - 2009 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction .......
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"Virginia" or his mother‚ who died when he was only three. Poe is also obsessed with the theme of color he uses through his writing‚ to describe simple imagery or to create symbolism. In the short story‚ "The Masque of the Red Death‚" and the poem‚ "The Raven‚" Edgar Allan Poe uses similar themes of death and uses color excessively to show imagery and symbolism. It is clear that Edgar Allan Poe was obsessed with the topic of death and it is even more clear that he had an extremely morbid imagination. Poe
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Annabel Lee And The Raven Comparison Sorrow for the Lost Annabel Lee With insistent meter and captivating rhyme schemes‚ Edgar Allan Poe’s "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" are both very similar. However‚ in their views of love‚ namely the loss and mourning of beautiful women‚ they differ greatly. Through analysis of the two poems‚ the reader observes that whom Poe had chosen for a speaker‚ the tone and the sound effects are all factors in both poems that make two poems with a similar theme contrast
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The raven in the famous book by Edgar Allen Poe‚ The Raven‚ is completely imaginary in my opinion. The way he portrays it the raven is almost ghostly and all in the narrator’s head. The bird starts to talk in this poem‚ which is impossible for a “raven” to do. The raven also is personified and twisted with words by Edgar to make it seem like the burden of his loss Lenore that lives with him every day. The bird is not real in this poem and is just simply a figment of Edgars imagination. The bird
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Hughes uses a variety of poetic and literary techniques to communicate his tone. Namely‚ he utilized figurative language‚ personification‚ similes‚ and metaphors to effectively get his message across. He uses the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds; "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?". Up and sun do not rhyme‚ but they have the same "uh" sound. Rhyme: Poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. "Does it stink like rotten meat?...like a syrup sweet?" Meat
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An Analytical Essay on Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was a woman who lived in times that are more traditional; her life experiences influence and help us to understand the dramatic and poetic lines in her writing. Although Dickinson’s poetry can often be defined as sad and moody‚ we can find the use of humor and irony in many of her poems. By looking at the humor and sarcasm found in three of Dickinson’s poems‚ "Success Is Counted Sweetest"‚ "I am Nobody"‚ and "Some keep the Sabbath Going to
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Raven” share many similarities in style and theme despite the fact that one is a short story and the other is a poem. One trait they share is the theme of mysterious horror that creates a dramatic and eerie setting. Another is the troubled and unreliable narrator. Both stories also hold the mentions of death and a kind of madness to them. The stories also share some differences. The works differ‚ however‚ in the way that they create the air of
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Intellect Versus Emotion In the two short stories‚ “The Raven” and “The Cask Of Amontillado”‚ written by Edgar Allen Poe‚ the contrast between realism and romantic ideas are used by the author to thoroughly scare the reader. In “The Raven”‚ the main character is an extreme realist that undergoes a romantic change from being haunted by a raven that reminds him of the death of his ex-lover Lenore. He keeps telling himself throughout the story‚ “’ tis some visitor… tapping at my chamber door- only
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“Midway upon the journey of our life‚ I found myself within a forest dark‚ For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” (Canto I). These opening words of the Italian Dante Alighieri’s Inferno set a scene of a man‚ Dante‚ lost in his own God-given life path. From here on‚ Dante embarks on a journey of staggering significance: he is granted a tour of Hell. Dante records this expedition in the Inferno‚ but unfortunately‚ the piece of literature is not entirely factual. Dante creates this story to
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“The Raven” written by Edgar Allan Poe during the 1800’s which was considered the Romantic Era of writing. This story tells of a man mourning over his lost love‚ Lenore. He was sitting reading to get his mind off his love‚ but there was a sound from the chamber door. When he goes to check there is nothing. He then discovers the Raven above his door. He sits down and asks the raven questions. The Raven responds with “Nevermore”. The young man thinks he is going crazy because he catches a strong smell
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