The poet Edgar Allan Poe was a poet that focused on darker themes. Some say it was a way of dealing with his emotions, due to how the poems correlate to his life. But he did not become the poet we know and love today by just writing. I will be talking about his poems and how his use of form, structure, imagery, figurative language, help to convey his theme, I'll be doing this by comparing the poems “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee”.
In the poem The Raven poe uses long lines and 6 lines per stanza, while the poem Annabel Lee uses very short line while having 6 lines. This changes how the poem is perceived as in The Raven the long lines help poe to express the strong emotions the narrator is feeling. “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by …show more content…
In the raven he describe his setting and the items around him to help the reader picture the place this is taking place. “ But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door/
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door” this helps us visualize the statue above the door. Annabel lee used this in a different way instead of describing items to help the tone, poe describes the overall setting, “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; “ this allows us to imagine a moonlit night by the sea and the man in “the kingdom by the sea” this allows for the people reading to think about the setting and allows the readers to visualize the setting of the poems.
Last, but not least, poe uses many forms of figurative language in his poems, a example of this in The Raven is “ And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,” he compares the raven’s eyes to that of which is a demon that is dreaming. And in Annabel Lee the man personifies a few objects on of them being the wind “A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling/My beautiful Annabel Lee; “ he says the wind killed her, this i figurative language for she “caught a chill” and as so he says the wind killed
In the poem The Raven poe uses long lines and 6 lines per stanza, while the poem Annabel Lee uses very short line while having 6 lines. This changes how the poem is perceived as in The Raven the long lines help poe to express the strong emotions the narrator is feeling. “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by …show more content…
In the raven he describe his setting and the items around him to help the reader picture the place this is taking place. “ But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door/
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door” this helps us visualize the statue above the door. Annabel lee used this in a different way instead of describing items to help the tone, poe describes the overall setting, “For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; “ this allows us to imagine a moonlit night by the sea and the man in “the kingdom by the sea” this allows for the people reading to think about the setting and allows the readers to visualize the setting of the poems.
Last, but not least, poe uses many forms of figurative language in his poems, a example of this in The Raven is “ And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,” he compares the raven’s eyes to that of which is a demon that is dreaming. And in Annabel Lee the man personifies a few objects on of them being the wind “A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling/My beautiful Annabel Lee; “ he says the wind killed her, this i figurative language for she “caught a chill” and as so he says the wind killed