The Use Of Connotative Words In Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven

In the introduction stanza Poe describes himself settled for the night, feeble and uncertain, pondering over an abundance of aimless thoughts. When all of the sudden, Poe is startled by a bleak noise at his chamber door. Assuming that it is of no importance he draws the conclusion it is a visitor, and nothing more. His thoughts portray a grim imagery of his home.

The Raven The famous line by shakespeare will last as long as time. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ”this line makes one think differently about a rose. Edgar allan Poe also makes us think differently about a simple thing like a Raven, by changing their perception of what a raven really is.

Additionally, Poe applies connotative diction to his short story to make it more effective. Undoubtedly, Poe includes connotative words that suggest danger in his story. For instance, he states, “‘True—true,” I replied; “and, indeed, I had no intention of alarming you unnecessarily; but you should use all proper caution”’(Poe, 61). Poe’s use of the words “alarming” and “caution” show connotative diction and cause the mood to feel a bit dangerous and threatening. The author also adds eerie and dark words to add to the connotative diction of the story.

After reading Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” connotations were noticeably used. With love of writing horror and dark stories, Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” about a loss of a member of his life along with other miserable stories in his life. Dreary is an important connotation because it gives a dull, bleak, and lifeless like the poem expressed. In stanza one, the narrator mentions how dreary the midnight sky is. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,” continues the feeling of a dull tone to fellow readers.

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…...”

In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” there are many symbols. For example, Lenore, “nevermore,” and the raven. Firstly, the character Lenore represents his dead wife Virginia. Furthermore, the quote “Nevermore,” which all the raven says, represents him losing his wife and the repeating losses in his life. Additionally, the raven represents death and sorrow, which is typically the theme in his poems and his life.

Edgar Allan Poe, a man who has changed literature through his numerous pieces of writing, such as The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher. In Edgar Allan Poe’s famous work, The Raven, the main character is confronted with a raven. The character speaks to the raven, thinking it couldn’t respond, but the raven did respond, but only speaking one word, “Nevermore” (Poe 331). In some cases of mental illnesses, one can experience hallucinations, hearing voices, paranoia, and even persecutory delusion. Is it possible that the Raven could have symbolized something other than a bird.

The poem “The Raven”, as in many times it has says, it was made through symbolism. And it can affirm that the raven is only a representation of a special part of the human mind of the leading character, specifically, it would be his own subconscious. It can argue this stamen by the fact that; first, it is could say that the poem was set in the protagonist min. Also, it can say that the raven through the story helps to the protagonist to know what was happening in his mind, and finally because others author in different literature’s genres also use animals to represent the thoughts of a character of their work.

Emotions are like a seesaw. One minute they’re up the next they’re down. While reading Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven one felt the sense of forlorn. The Dictonary.com definition of forlorn is “desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.”

The Romantic Period was an artistic, literary movement that started in Europe at the end of the 18th century. The Romantic movement was partly a reaction to the industrial revolution that dominated at that time; it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. After a grueling revolutionary war, America finally gained its independence from the great British. Nevertheless, Americans have grown dependent on the British throughout the many years of colonization. It was at this dire times that Romanticism reached America.

Throughout literature, an author's works always reflects their mood and character. Edgar Allen Poe is an American writer who's poem and short stories reflected on his ominous mood. In the poem, "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe is about a raven that flies into a lonely and sad man's house, he is alone and weak, he is weary of trying to distract himself from his sorrow. It expresses Poe's sense of melancholy and gloominess. The speaker's tone changes throughout the poem dramatically changes as he realizes the true meaning of meeting with the Raven.