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.
Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem Lady Geraldine's Courtship, and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout. The Raven was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.he Philosophy of Composition . The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens.