NEVERMORREEE

Name author + synoniems

Name: edgar allan poe

• master of the macabre

• the master of suspense

• the father of detective story

• tomahak man (he wrote harsh revieuws)

why was adgar allan poe famouse

his eerie and imaginative tales → groundwork modern detetcive stories

how was his family situation

Family situation: father abandoned the family + mother died of turbeculosis → raised by foster → cut ties with him

what was his encomics situation (or smth)

Economicly: struggeled →had to leave uni ( university of virginaia + wrestpoint) → full time job as writer

whow was his love life

Love: married his cousin virginia in 1839 → died in 1847 → sad: NEVER MORE GOT MADE

when + theories of his death

Died: 1849 in baltimore

• alcohlism to medical conditions but thats just a theory a litterary theory.

a line

verse

group of lines

stanza

repeating rhytmic unit that forms part of a line

foot

basic rhythmic structure of a line

a meter

the first stanza explain pls

• stressel sulabble follewed by an unstressed sullable → a trochee (repeated 8 times) → thochaaic octametre

mood poem

Dark and eerie: gothic imagery (midnight december), narrator descents in depsair, pauses. + repititions of NEVERMOREEE

narrator poem

mourning the loss of lis love lenore, he was sitting in his room reading a book as a distraction

raven peom

death and espair + permanant grief. Ravens are associated with death of the supernatual in varius mythologies.

NEVERMORE POEM

the realistation that his hopes of seeing lenore again of escaping his sorrow are futile.

metaphor

• comparison without like or as

• the raven who represents the narratos grief / lonliness

allusion

• reference to another person or another litteray work

• pallas: godess of wisdom

simile

• comparion with like or as

• suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping,

juxtaposition

• putting contrasting things next to eahother

• the raving htat is sitting on the pallas

personification

• making objects of animals seem human

• the raven speaks

onomatopoeia

• words that sound like what they describe

• tapping

refrain

• a phrase or sentence that is regulary repeated

• NEVERMORE

hyperbole

• exagerration

• all my soul within me burning

assonance

• repeating vowel sounds

• one upon a midnight dreary while i ponder weak and weary

alliteration

• repeating constants at te beginning of the words

• i nodded nearly napping

irony

saying the opposite of what you mean

anaphore

• the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnign of several sentences or clauses

• let my heart be,…