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 based the structure of The Raven on the complicated rhyme and rhythm of Elizabeth Barrett's poem Lady Geraldine's Courtship. Poe had reviewed Barrett's work in the January 1845 issue of the Broadway Journal and said that her poetic inspiration is the highest â we can conceive of nothing more august.resumably at the time of the poem's recitation by the narrator, the raven still is sitting on the bust of Pallas. The narrator's final admission is that his soul is trapped beneath the raven's shadow and shall be lifted Nevermore.