Tolled the Raven, "Tone." by Benjamin Blue https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi An examination of tone throughout the Raven. en-us 2017-11-21 18:02:30 UTC 2023-05-03 13:27:18 UTC hello@padlet.com As he goes to answer the door, thinking about Lenore, he grows nervous, yet slightly wistful, hoping beyond hope that Lenore is at the door. 1319568 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/209206364 Here, his tone becomes quite nervous. Quite a few of his remarks are rationalizations to help him cope with the anticipation and anxiousness. 
The narrator begins to feel nervous when when he "stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal dared to dream before"(Poe 25-26). ]]> 2017-11-21 18:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/209206364 He thinks about Lenore, his lost love, and why he was up so late reading. 1319568 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/209206365 The melancholy element of his tone intensifies at this point. 
The narrator feels "sorrow for the lost Lenore" (Poe 10). ]]> 2017-11-21 18:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/209206365 The narrator is woken up by tapping at his door. 1319568 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/209206366 At this point, the tone is calm, melancholy, and rather laid back. 
The author was "nearly napping" when "suddenly there came tapping"(Poe 3) at the door. ]]> 2017-11-21 18:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/209206366 He expresses intense fear upon opening the door. 1319568 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210498336 When he opens the door, he stares "deep into" the "darkness" and begins "fearing" what will be on the other side (Poe, 25-26).  Although he feared what was on the other side, there turned out to be nothing, so he turned "back into the chamber" (Poe, 31).]]> 2017-11-27 16:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210498336 As he heads to the window, he begins feeling hopeless, no longer thinking that it is Lenore knocking. 1319568 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210504611 As he loses hope of a miracle, the narrator begins to dread what is knocking, and fears the worst.
The narrator turns, "the soul within [him] burning" and goes to see "what the threat is, and [the] mystery to explore"(Poe 31-34). 
]]> 2017-11-27 16:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210504611 He feels incredibly relieved upon seeing that the knocker is nothing more than a raven. 1319568 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210508679 This relief, however brief, affects the tone, as the narrator's voice relaxes, with a bit of nervous humor. 
The narrator, when he sees the Raven, asks in jest for the Raven to "tell [him] what [its] lordly name is" (Poe 47), not expecting a reply. ]]> 2017-11-27 16:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210508679 The narrator is desperate to learn what the Raven's appearance means. 1329058 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210533050 This moment of pure desperation between relief and anger marks the beginning of the narrator's descent into darkness - and the tone at this point shows it. 
His tone is bitter and demanding, grasping violently at something to restore reason. He describes the Raven as a "fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into [his] bosom's core" (Poe 73). ]]> 2017-11-27 17:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210533050 The narrator becomes infatuate with 1329058 https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210533150 At the end of the story the narrator becomes angry with the raven and wants it to leave his chamber. He begins to shout at the raven, "thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil" (Poe 85). Although the narrator shouts at the raven, it "still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas"  (Poe 103-104) upon his chamber door. ]]> 2017-11-27 17:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1319568/8iqxtv1kbxqi/wish/210533150