Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
What is the author's tone in Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe?
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Like the themes and imagery, Poe's tone is dark and mournful. There is a sense of loss, mystery, and even desperation in his poetry. Consider Poe's The Raven:
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting— “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!