Mood In The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe

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In the raven by Edgar Allen Poe the narrator uses tone words to describe what and how the reader feels about the tapping and rapping at the chamber door. The moods he creates through his word choice are fear, sorrow, and darkness.

In the beginning, the mood of the readers is fearful. When the narrator describes the sound of tapping, and rapping at the chamber door, this causes a nervous feeling. In stanza 28 and 29 the mood is scared, when the narrator hears someone whisper Lenore. This creates a scary and worried feeling in the narrator.

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