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He is grief-stricken over the loss of his love, Lenore, and his mental state deteriorates over the course of the poem.  \nTENSE  \n\"The Raven\" is told primarily in the past tense as the speaker recounts his experience with the raven, but the tense occasionally moves into the speaker's present, most notably atthe poem's close.  \nABOUT THE TITLE  \nThe title \"The Raven\" refers to the raven that visits and vexes the speaker on a winter's night.  \nd In Context  \nGothic Literature  \nGothic literature explores the dark side of the human condition: death, loss, loneliness, nightmare, alienation, and the supernatural. Many of Poe's poems and short stories deal with one or several of these themes. His speakers and narrators veer into melancholy or outright insanity, and they are usually loners or outcasts living on the fringes of society. Much of his work focuses on death or murder, presented with a creeping, ominous mood of inescapability. Gothic literature generally includes the following characteristics:  \n Mysterious or supernatural plot elements  \n Ominous and personified architectural settings  \n Intense emotion and drama  \n Isolated, moody heroes  \nIn \"The Raven,\" a lonely scholar obsesses over his dead lover until he's visited by a strange raven that speaks only one ominous word: \"Nevermore.\" Poe uses the setting—midnight on a bleak December night—and the speaker's weak and weary mindset, along with intensely sensual language describing death, ghosts, and angels, to evoke a mood of despair, darkness, and slowly encroaching madness.  \nPoetic Elements  \nPoe uses alliteration, or the repetition of initial sounds at the beginnings of words, to create rhythm and influence the mood of the poem. For example, \"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.\" The repetition of the n sound creates a mood suited for slumber. The sudden tapping startles the speaker as well as the reader.  \nThe meter, or pattern of beats, of \"The Raven\" is designed to give it a musical rhythm when read aloud. \"The Raven\"comprises eight stressed-unstressed two syllable feet per line (trochaic octameter) . Poe adds to this rhythm by including internal rhyme in each stanza, such as with \"weary\"/\"dreary\"and \"napping\"/\"tapping.\"  \nPoe uses assonance, or the repetition of a vowel sound, to establish tone. For example, \"over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.\" The repetition of the long o sound creates a tone that is mysterious.  \nIn addition, Poe uses onomatopoeia, or words that mimic sounds, to great effect. 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