Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, critic ,editor and writer marked by pain and loss, the somber poems he had written explored the corrupt side of the human mind.With that some his poems had a certain tone of gloom and dreadful emotion. Poe had a reputation for his cultivation of mystery and the dark atmosphere in his tales of horror. Poe quotes,”Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” In this essay I will be describing how Poe uses repetition and word choice to create a variety of effects for the reader to scrutinize.
An example of his use of repetition would be for the poem “Raven” the word he uses is ‘Quoth’ which means, in modern time, ‘said’. Poe
An example of his use of repetition would be for the poem “Raven” the word he uses is ‘Quoth’ which means, in modern time, ‘said’. Poe