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lilzzy
lilzzy
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High School - 11th Grade

What are the conflicts in "The Raven," and how does the sound of the poem effect the readers? Please list each of them.

The sound as in rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopeia.

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Posted by lilzzy on Thursday April 10, 2008 at 5:20 AM and tagged with conflicts, literary devices, sounds, the raven.

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  1. kwoo1213 Teacher
    College - Junior

    eNotes Editor

    The main conflict is an internal one.  The narrator struggles with the loss of his love, Lenore, and he is profoundly sad about and affected by this loss.  Later, he also struggles with this surreal appearance of the raven outside of his window because this raven can talk and because he only says one word: "Nevermore."  What is odd is that this narrator actually wants to be alone.  He desires no company and is perturbed that he is drwan out of his isolation by the raven (Enotes).

    Elements related to sounds in the poem include "consonance and assonance, or repetition of consonant and vowel sounds, respectively" (Enotes).  Also, he uses alliteration in some stanzas, which is the repetition of consonants in succession (for example:  "The slithering snake slid over the sand").  Pow also uses a rhyme scheme:

    every stanza uses words that rhyme with “more” to conclude the second, fourth, fifth and sixth lines creates a very strong unifying effect for the poem. (Enotes)
    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/raven

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    Posted by kwoo1213 on Saturday April 12, 2008 at 5:49 PM