In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, the author uses many tone words that have a big effect on the mood of the poem. Edgar Allen Poe was a American gothic writer in the 1800’s. He wrote many well know stories such as: “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, “the Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Raven”. Poe’s use of tone words that are gloomy and dark, makes the overall mood of the poem depressing and ominous. “The Raven” has many negative connotation words throughout the poem. In stanza 2 the poem has negative words like: bleak, dying, morrow, vainly, and sorrow. The poem states in stanza 12, “What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore”, has many low-spirited tone words. The poem continues
