In “The Raven,” poet Edgar Allen Poe employs a variety of literary devices such as tone, repetition, and imagery to demonstrate how this poem is supposed to feel when the reader reads it while also restating certain words to make the reader turn their attention toward them.. Edgar Allen Poe uses dark imagery to establish a dark tone in the first line of the poem. At the beginning of the poem in the first line he says “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”. This quote is setting a scene by using words like midnight which is basically the darkest time of the day, dreary which is also stating darkness as well as weak and weary which is showing a tiredness which could show darkness also. He does this in order to paint
