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.
Like death, loss, and suffering, the raven is part of the speaker's life and will remain so. The raven casts a shadow on the speaker's life and seems to threaten the speaker. He comes unexpectedly and acts as it pleases without any concern for the effect it has on others.