The misfortunes in a person's life sometimes brings out the worst in them. When someone loses a person close to their heart, they may not recover for months or years. Edgar Allan Poe is the exception. In the most troubling time of his life, Edgar produced his most fascinating piece of poetry. The loss of his beloved Virginia creates of mood of lingering grief through his poem that can not be diminished. The poem also conveys a message of darkness and despair that wraps the reader into the story and provokes them to read more. “The Raven,” uses literary devices such as alliteration, internal rhyme, consonance, and assonance to inform the reader of his misfortunes. In the third stanza of the poem, the narrator addresses the question upon which…show more content… Poe keeps the reader on edge by using an alliteration in his next two lines with the words, “entreating entrance.” The reason for this literary device is to better enhance the level upon which this presence wishes to speak with the narrator. Edgar Allan Poe restates the previously line again, but transcribes a somewhat different meaning for the reader to identify. Poe describes the time upon which the visitor is wishing to see him. By using the word late, the reader understands the time of day in which the raven visits the speaker. In the final line of his third stanza Poe reiterates the fact that someone is at his door. He does this while also keeping the rhyme sequence of his poem. By using the words, “nothing more,” Poe tells that he absolutely certain that their is something at his door. Although Poe produced some of the darkness and most evil writings of his time, his perseverance and determination is something in which every reader should admire him for. His imagination and ability to create imagery in the minds of the people who read his works is what set him apart from the average writer of his time. All together, Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most misunderstood geniuses of his time, and he did not received the fullest extent of the glory he so dearly
