The Raven

Most poems that are written contain musical qualities. In Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven," the speaker recounts what he experiences one late night; a raven flies in through his window and constantly repeats the phrase "nevermore" to each of the man's questions. The speaker has lost a woman, Lenore, to death, and suffers from the burden of her lost presence. The bird's responses only serve to increase the speaker's feelings of melancholy. Throughout the stanzas, Poe uses sound effects to enhance the dark and gloomy tone of the poem itself.