Question

2. Read the following excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven":

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering,
fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream
before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word,
Lenore!"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word,
"Lenore!" -
Merely this, and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before.
"Surely," said 1, "surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore- Let
my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-
'Tis the wind and nothing more!"
Analyze the effects of Poe's use of literary devices in the poem. In particular, explain
how the excerpt's symbolism and personification are meant to affect the reader
Provide evidence for your analysis from the text.

Answer 1

he uses the wind as saying lenore. he has lost his love and is missing her think of death. dreaming dreams. doubting. hes thinking maybe shes not dead or wishing she was not dead. he explains it off as the wind yet the wind echos lenore.