In “ The Raven,” Edgar Allan uses form to demonstrate that often when people have a limited understanding of their surroundings, it leads them to fear of the unknown, resulting in their stubborn refusal to accept and embrace inevitable change. Consequently the poet’s use of repetition in ‘Raven’ accentuates the speaker’s concept of fear to move on to a new unfamiliar beginning. As this is demonstrated in stanza 1, on “a January morning”(5), which implies the beginning of a difficult new change as it is the commencement of a new year and start to a new cold day. The poet shows the bus’s hesitance and difficulty in moving forward in the lines “ so cold your nostrils freeze together, so cold the motor sqeeles in protest” (6-7). The word “cold”
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The poet uses stanza breaks to emphasize the importance of the last line in the poem, to imply the obliviousness of the children on the bus towards the raven. Near the end of the poem the person who is driving the car in front of the school bus notices the raven and wonders “ are the children on the school bus oblivious?”(32-33).By giving the word “oblivious” its own line, it highlights one of the themes of the poem which is human nature’s obliviousness to the dangers and changes around us (in this case the raven); as the poet expresses this concept of limited understanding through the young children, who are innocent and naive therefor are not able to become aware of the raven that is in front of them. Furthermore the poet’s use of enjambment in particular lines emphasizes the stubborn refusal to accept inevitable change; as demonstrated in the beginning of the poem when the bus is having difficulty moving forward it “whines” (8) “futility” (9) “run” (14). By putting these words at the end of the line breaks it accentuates their importance to the poem’s meaning as people complain and are scared of change and want to avoid and “run” away from it , just pretend it is not there as if it is
The poet uses stanza breaks to emphasize the importance of the last line in the poem, to imply the obliviousness of the children on the bus towards the raven. Near the end of the poem the person who is driving the car in front of the school bus notices the raven and wonders “ are the children on the school bus oblivious?”(32-33).By giving the word “oblivious” its own line, it highlights one of the themes of the poem which is human nature’s obliviousness to the dangers and changes around us (in this case the raven); as the poet expresses this concept of limited understanding through the young children, who are innocent and naive therefor are not able to become aware of the raven that is in front of them. Furthermore the poet’s use of enjambment in particular lines emphasizes the stubborn refusal to accept inevitable change; as demonstrated in the beginning of the poem when the bus is having difficulty moving forward it “whines” (8) “futility” (9) “run” (14). By putting these words at the end of the line breaks it accentuates their importance to the poem’s meaning as people complain and are scared of change and want to avoid and “run” away from it , just pretend it is not there as if it is