Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Which detail most strongly develops the theme of loneliness in "The Raven"?

The
second stanza is remarkably effective at
highlighting the speaker's loneliness and sense of
desolation. Recalling that
strange night when the raven visited him, he refers to the
"bleak December"
and how each "dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor." These details
provide a suitably gloomy...



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