Edgar poe?

ENG101

Edgar Allan Poe Assignment

Ackeem Vohrnis

10/8/2014

1. “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the

clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a

singularity dreary tract of country”.


2.At the beginning of the Edgar Allan Poe’s long poem “The Raven”, the narrator tells us “a

sense of insufferable gloom pervaded his spirit” when he first saw the building, letting the

readers know that the building was not appealing to him. Poe’s narrator also tells us “I say

insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable”.


3.In “The Raven”, Edgar Allan Poe’s narrator tells that when he first saw the building, “a sense

of insufferable gloom pervaded his spirit”. In this line, I believe Poe’s narrator is explaining that

his mood drastically changed for the worse, upon seeing the building.


4. .At the beginning of the Edgar Allan Poe’s long poem “The Raven”, the narrator explains that

it was a “dull and boring autumn day”. He tells us it is a “foggy day and he has been traveling by

himself on a horse, along a single unpleasant looking path’