The Raven

__I've read Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven. This poem is told in a dark December night, the author was tired and sad because his girlfriend died. He was reading his old books. He heard someone knocking on his chamber door. He thought that was a visitor coming over. He went to the door, he stood in the darkness, and nothing was there. Then, he heard a tapping sound coming from the window, he felt scared. He heard the knocking of the door again, he went to the door, this time he saw a raven, and he heard a whisper of his girlfriend's name, "Lenore", who had died. The raven flew into the house and sat on the bust. The author asked for the bird's name, it answered "Nevermore". And the bird stayed there forever. 

__The mood of this poem is melancholy. The author expresses this feeling from "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" and "Eagerly I wished the morrow; -vainly I had sought to borrow". From these sentences, we knew the author was melancholy and depressed. This poem is also suspenseful, "suddenly there came a tapping," "rapping at my chamber door". The author was curious who it would be. It's scary, "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple
curtain", "Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before." The poet used poetic devices, such as assonance, "Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore", which repeats the sound of the vowel. The poet also uses repetition, he uses "more" at the end of every stanza. The poem rhymes, for example, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."

__After I read this poem, I think this poem is mysterious, there are many places where I don't understand, I don't know what was the reason for the raven to come. To me, I think the raven is the soul of his girlfriend—Lenore. I think the raven stayed on the bust because she doesn't want to be separated with the author. It's like the raven can think and understand. I think the raven’s last answer "Nevermore" means this will never happen again.

 Literary of The Raven.