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Possible Transition sentence In the exposition of Poe’s most famous Poem, The Raven, Poe
establishes a mood of darkness, irony, and sorrow, as he writes “eagerly I wished the morrow;-- vainly I
had sought to borrow” (Poe Stanza 2 ln 3). This example of assonance helps to establish the theme of
hopelessness as Poe uses irony to foreshadow the protagonist’s death, thereby establishing a theme of
futility. Possible Transition sentence