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The Raven
Poets can use many different devices to get their point across. Creating the melancholic tone in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" Poe uses many devices to introvert the effect of the crisis of hell; this is unusually moving and somewhat attractive to the reader. Of all melancholy topics, Poe wish to use the one that was universally understood, death, specifically death involving a beautiful woman. He doesn't stop using poetic devices throughout the writing especially when he is trying to get an effect out of the reader. Even one of the main characters, the Raven, is a symbol. A raven is usually the symbol of something dark and sinister. A raven is also a sign of death. Poe does not use poetic devices to just describe characters, but his way of writing also becomes part of the plot and gives the reader clues on what exactly happened or is going on.
It can be argued that the Raven is possibly a figment of the imagination of the narrator, obviously upset over the death......

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