Alliteration In The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe has a unique way of writing his poems. Poe wrote poems in a Gothic tone during the Romanticism Era. Poe has a way of including alliteration, repetition, imagery, and difficult vocabulary. Poe likes to create a visual image in a reader 's head. Each person can interpret a different image and meaning. Poe uses to tone to describe to set the mood and give the reader an image. Poe also likes to create suspense but repeating words, describing others thoughts or feelings, and including vivid images.
“Annabel Lee” has alliteration to set the mood and describe the narrator 's feelings. With the use of the letter ‘s’ Poe sets a evil and hissing setting and it also builds rhythm. By referring to the sea in multiple stanzas the reader know it 's important. Poe uses alliteration in this other poems like “ The Raven”. In the “The Raven” alliteration is used creating a dark, eerie, and mysterious mood. In “Annabel Lee” the letters ‘m, l, s, c, h, and d’. In stanza one m is repeated to emphasize the manys years ago he had a maiden. The uses of the letter ‘l’ is repeated with love and lived. Therefore, the author was deeply in love and remembers the days vividly. Letting the reader know what’s happening and setting a mood. The use of ‘s’
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Poe has used metaphors in many of his poems like “The Raven”. In “The Raven” Poe is comparing his childhood to the annoying raven. As a kid Poe was chased around by kids and he would yell. In “Annabel Lee” Poe is comparing the young and innocent love. In stanza two “ I was a child and she was a child” represents the innocence of young love and their youth. Comparing it to modern times like Anakin and Padmé, Han Solo and Princess Leia, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and many others. Also in lines 9-12 their love is compared to a married couple. One that is perfectly made in heaven and blessed marriage. As if the angels had done their part and were pleased with their

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