Edgar Allan Poe: Reflection Of His Pessimistic Moods In His Work
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Throughout literature, an author's works almost always reflect their
mood and character. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer whose short stories
and poems reflected his pessimistic moods. One of Poe's poems, "The Raven," is
about a raven that flies into the home of a sad and lonely man. This p ....
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.... the raven itself. A raven is a large bird of the crow family with lustrous
black feathers and a straight, sharp beak. Poe could have used any bird, however
he wanted the reader to experience the gloom and despondency that he experienced.
Therefore he wrote about a raven.
Finally, Poe's use of assonance throughout the poem also contributed to
the poem's illustration of despair and gloominess. Assonance is the repetition
of vowel sound. For instance, at the end of each stanza it says, "Quo ....
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