The artist will often use a combination of several âformalâ elements of art to move the viewers eye around and into the composition. For example, in the image above, the eye moves from the head to the book and back to the head.
Storyboard Text. 1  The Raven. 2  Edgar Alam Poe created a melancholy mood in his poem, The Raven, by using figurative, setting, imagery, tone and the speaker to help enritch his writing. 3  Figurative Language. (. 4  X X. 5  Setting. 6  Imagery. 7  Poe uses figurative language as one of the ways to add to the mood and tone of his poems.
The Raven presents several elements of traditional Gothic literature. These include mystery, the grotesque, and the supernatural. The raven's arrival is a mystery. It starts with the strange tapping at the door, but when the narrator checks, Darkness there and nothing more (line 24). He opens the window, and the bird flies in.