The theme or plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author's calculated construction of a single, intense mood in the reader's or listener's mind. ... Despite his surface simplicity, Poe's artistry can be appreciated only when a reader explores his use of literary devices. ... Poe masterfully combines many literary techniques to fully achieve this spooky feeling. ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Many authors' literary works are often influenced by their own personal life experiences. ... The juxtaposition of Poe's life and work is most evident in the morbid personalities and melancholy themes of his literary compositions, similar to those of his life. ... In 1835 Poe married his cousin Virginia, only thirteen years old at the time, and then left her and her mother in Baltimore, while he went on to Richmond, where he worked with Thomas White at the Southern Literary Messenger. Most of Edgar's work with the Messenger was of critical nature but he ...
It is most obvious that Poe's rhyme scheme in this poem reinforces the theme of inconsolable loss through the emphatic repetition of "Nevermore." ... This very intense use of repetition suggests that the theme of "The Raven" may not be so much about "inconsolable sorrow," as so many critics have deemed, but more about a kind of obsessive grief that one feels when a loved one is lost. ...
A major theme that can be found in Poe's writings though, is that of tragedy and lost love. ... Poe was able to find money though by publishing short stories and found a job working for the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. ...
Furthermore, this paper examines the psychological themes, motifs and symbols available in the story. ... A few of the recurrent themes and motifs in his writings are, death, horror, dream like atmospheres, murder. ... Gothic Literature The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reason, grew in response to the historical, sociological, psychological, and political contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Galens 2002:281). ...
