The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poets can use many different tools to get their point across. To create the melancholic tone in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", Poe uses many devices to introvert the effect of the crisis of hell; this is unusually touching and somehow appealing to the reader. Of all the melancholic subjects, Poe wishes to use the universally understood one, death, especially death involving a beautiful woman. He never stops using poetic devices throughout his writing, especially when trying to get an effect on the reader. One of the main characters, the Crow, is also a symbol. A raven is usually a symbol of something dark and sinister. A raven is also a sign of death. Poe not only uses poetic devices to describe characters, but his writing style also becomes part of the plot and provides the reader with clues as to what exactly happened or is happening. It can be argued that the Crow is perhaps a figment of the imagination. of the narrator, obviously distraught over Lenore's death. The narrator states in the first stanza that he is weak and tired. He's almost dozing, when he hears a knock on the door, which could most likely make the sound something he heard in an almost dreamlike state, maybe not even a real sound. He is terrified of being alone in the room he is in when the poem takes place. The "sad, uncertain rustle of every purple curtain thrilled me, filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before. (13)" When the poem opens, he is reading books of "forgotten traditions. (2)" His imagination probably he's already running wild, his surroundings are helpful to the situation he's in. The word chamber implies a cold and rigid feeling, as if the narrator had locked himself away to...... middle of paper ......lf- inflicted torture on the narrator. All of these things can attest to the narrator's mental state due to the loss of Lenore. As the poem comes to an end, we see that the narrator will forever be reminded of death and the fact that he, as part of his nature, cannot understand it. And it will forever remind him of Lenore and her loss, for the raven is sitting there above the door - "and the raven, that never flutters, is still sitting, is still sitting on the pale bust of Pallas just above my chamber door ...(103)” “Take thy beak from my heart, and take thy form from my door, (101),” he pleads. But the crow won't go away. The raven will sit above the narrator's door every day for eternity to remind the narrator that he cannot understand death. And left beneath the shadow that the crow casts on the floor is the narrator's soul that will never be lifted again.!