Why Did Edgar Allan Poe Use Alliteration In The Raven

Poetry is one of the most powerful tools in conveying many different things such as love, fear, common sense, and characters perceptions of what is wrong or right. This allows the audience to be able to make connections with the perceptions of different characters. One very great poet who is able to do this is Edgar Allan Poe. It was his background that made him the poet he is known widely to be today. From the very early stages of life till his death, Edgar Allan Poe had been going through very difficult tribulations that turned him into one of the most famous writers of the 1800’s .The loss of both his parents at a young age, being a poor orphan, to the death of his wives these are all events that lead up to him becoming depressed and lonely. He uses his talent of macabre poetry in hopes for some money. Edgar Allan Poe in able to convey this eerie feeling effectively towards his audience by effectively using ethos and sounds like tapping and rustling. He also uses alliteration, symbolism, and personification which he composes successfully in “ The Raven”. …show more content…
It begins with Edger about to sleep when all of a sudden he hears a tapping at his door that keeps getting louder but once he opens the door he finds nobody there. This causes the audience to become anxious for what may come next. Thus the author begins with a spooky alliteration as he stares into the darkness, “wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”. This causes the reader to wonder what could Edger Allan Poe possibly be thinking that no human has ever thought before thus adding to the intensity of the