The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it — the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience. The tone in a poem of praise is approval. Tone can be playful, humorous, regretful, anything — and it can change as the poem goes along. When you speak, your tone of voice suggests your attitude.

What literary devices are in alone by Edgar Allan Poe?

• metaphor: the spring, the devil (explained above)
• imagery (explained above)
• rhyme: ” My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone.”
• parallelism:
• dichotomy: “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
• personification:

The figurative language used in this poem are metaphors and personification, which metaphor is used in line 4, lines 14-17, and the last 4 lines, and personification is used for the last 3 lines. By adding personification and metaphors Poe wants you to understand how other people think and how he viewed the world.

Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” is crowded with imagery; Poe’s metaphors, more sparing, add intensity to that imagery and to his theme of the hopelessness of mourning. His first metaphor personalizes his mood: “All my soul within me burning.” His soul, grieving his lost Lenore, becomes a flaming brand.

The raven says “Nevermore.” A very good example of a metaphor is “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming.” In this quote Poe is comparing the raven’s eyes to a demon. An example of a simile is when he uses a comparison to express the narrator’s grief to the raven’s reply to him.

Important words in the poem include “demon”, “childhood”, and “From”, seeing as that particular world began a line seven times. 7. The tone of the poem is sad and it makes the reader pity Poe and the hardships and depression he has endured in his life. Obviously, the tone is somber and sad. 8. Literary devices include:

Examples of imagery in the poem include: From the torrent, or the fountain, From the red cliff of the mountain, From the sun that ’round me roll’d, In its autumn tint of gold.

To sum up, we think an analysis should take into account the shifts in tone the changes in meter create. Meter is used in the first half of the poem to give a narrative feel to the poem, while in the second half to build suspense, and then to release it. Here we will offer an analysis of the poem Alone by Edgar Allan Poe.

As with all the poems by Edgar Allan Poe, there are a lot of literary devices in the poem. Let’s look at all of them with examples. Imagery: Imagery has been heavily used in the poem, painting a picture for the readers and letting them see what Poe had seen.