LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The natural beauty of the setting creates an uplifting mood.
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The setting does not relate to the mood.
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The bleak setting helps create a feeling of melancholy.
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The bright, busy setting creates a contrast with the sad 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 author Edgar Allan poe used many descriptive words to establish the mood of the story “The Raven”, and there are many ways to prove these statements as Edgar Allan Poe uses repetition, alliteration and the rhyming of words to help set the mood of the story.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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-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.