Diction In The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe was written over 150 years ago and the diction is a little hard to understand. It is titled The Raven because the poem is about a raven, but the raven doesn’t show up for a while so it keeps the reader interested throughout the poem and constantly wondering about the bird such as where it comes from and what it represents. This poem contains a lot of rhythmic rhyming. The speaker is emotional and the tone is intense. As the events of the poem grow more intense, the words and the rhythm of the poem pick up too. In the room Poe describes in the poem, the curtains are "silken" and "purple" and the cushions on the chairs have “velvet violet lining". Poe doesn 't say what exactly this room is, but I imagine it being …show more content…
These sound effects help create a sense of atmosphere because they are very strong and match the mood of the book, which along with the reader and his tone of the voice, allows me to really envision the mood. The audio was very well thought out and strongly selected because of its usefulness in this audio book. The sound effects are related not only to the mood but also to the characters actions and temperaments by changing the tone of the sound effects to math how that character feels along with darker sounds for an upset mood and a lighter happier tone when the mood is well. The sound effects are important because they are used to build the themes in the text by using sound effects that get the listeners attention when there is something important to be heard, such as a major theme event. The sound effects serve many purposes and they also organize the text by setting certain settings with different tones so the reader does not get lost in the audio book. Along with the sound I think the diction level of the text is kind of difficult to understand, I think that there are a lot of strong verbs used and complex words that make the text hard to follow, especially when listening to it. The choice of words helps to signal the purpose of the text by really describing scenarios and events in a very strong manner that let the text come to life in my head such when Edgar Allen Poe states, “Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!” This is a perfect example of strong word use in order for me to illustrate what is happening in the text. I envision a distraught man who wants to be left alone yet others do not want him to. This piece of text has a very sorrowful connotation behind