The Raven Mood Analysis

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Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” use of negative tone words and word choice effect the overall mood of the poem by making the poems very dark and gloomy mood and then in later on in the story the tone words create a very angry but sorry mood. The words used in the stanzas lead you into a creepy and chilling mood that makes the story very suspicious and alarming because it makes people feel very overwhelmed with terror and fear. The words midnight, darkness, and dreary set the tone for a dark and gloomy time because dreary means gloomy or dull and midnight and darkness, well mean dark. In stanza one it states “Once upon a midnight dreary…...” this is part of what starts the story off with a dark and gloomy mood. Furthermore, in lines 81,85,

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