LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The bright, busy setting creates a strong contrast with the poem´s sad mood.
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The natural beauty of the poem´s setting creates its uplifting mood.
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The setting has no relation to the mood of the poem.
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The bleak setting helps create the poem´s melancholic mood.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How is the setting of “The Raven” related to the mood of the piece? The bright, busy setting creates a strong contrast with the poem´s sad mood. The setting has no relation to the mood of the poem. The natural beauty of the poem´s setting creates its uplifting mood.
Detailed explanation-2: -How does the setting set the mood of the poem? The setting makes one immediately feel the cold, lonely and despairing tone of the poem. It is dark (midnight) and sad (dreary), and this sets the mood of the poem.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The Raven” is set in the “chamber” of the narrator-an unnamed scholar-and the entirety of the story unfolds within this room. It is set sometime in the middle of the night (the poem opens “on a midnight dreary”) but continues for a dream-like and indefinite amount of time, although presumably during the same night.
Detailed explanation-4: -The tone of the poem “The Raven” is sorrowful and despondent. The speaker of the poem has lost his love, Lenore. The speaker is grieving in his study when a raven appears on the bust in the doorway. The raven says only one word, ‘’Nevermore.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the poem, “The Raven, ” by Edgar Allen Poe is about a raven that flies into a lonely and sad man’s house, he is alone and weak, he is weary of trying to distract himself from his sorrow. It expresses Poe’s sense of melancholy and gloominess.