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Literary Sound Devices alliteration-Poe uses this literary device to make the poem sound song-like internal rhyme-Poe's use of rhyming words within the lines of the poem make the reader expect more onomatopoeia-Poe uses words that echo their actual meaning
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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Raven." Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Austin: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, 2008. 297-301. Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Raven." Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Vol. 1: Poems. Cambridge: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1969. 364-69. "Edgar-Allan-Poe.jpg." Image. Photobucket. 18 Feb. 2009. http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh172/juliannetippen/Edgar- Allan-Poe.jpg?t=1235001247 "The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe-Animated Movie." YouTube. 17 June 2008. 13 Feb. 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsEh1FkJCA
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Edgar Allan Poe Born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts Died October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Massachusetts American poet, short-story writer, editor, and literary critic Was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a inancially difficult life and career Considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre
Literary Criticism "The speaker of the poem is typically identified as a student, that is, a seeker of knowledge. That we find him at the outset poring over 'many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore' suggests interests beyond reviving his lost love or terminated his grief." "The raven's predictable reply to three questions asked by the speaker has, I believe, bee read too simplistically. A more rigorous reading suggests that the raven's 'Nevermore' does not provide even the obstentible answer the speaker reads into it. It serves, rather, as a refusal to answer, which assumes by its repitition import beyond personal and emotional context."
by: Edgar Allan Poe
