3) All people who go through life are shown by the knight. Eldorado is a symbol of those unattainable ideals.
4)
• Stanza 1: You feel like you are going on an adventure or having fun.
• Stanza 2: Because the knight is getting older and still has not found Eldorado, the mood is sad and depressed.
• Stanza 3: The mood is one of sadness and failure, as he grows older and loses hope to the point where he seeks assistance.
• Stanza 4: The tone is mocking, as the shadow inquires whether he ever discovered it.
5) The poem raises a thoughtful moral issue that many readers can relate to in some way. Every stanza of the poem, which is made up of six lines per line, contains the word "shadow," which is used four times in total. Each stanza begins with the third line, which introduces the term "shadow." Though the term appears multiple times, each instance has a distinct meaning. The first shadow is a real shadow, a shadow that the sun casts. It could also mean both happiness and sadness. The second shadow is the shadow that has taken over the knight's heart after a lot of unsuccessful searching. The third shadow is a living being, his or an angel. The fourth shadow alludes to the "Valley of the Shadow" in a metaphorical sense. The fact that the knight has grown old and weak and must cross "Over the Mountains of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow" is interpreted as a symbol of the knight's death, as it corresponds to the Biblical valley of death. To understand Poe's message, we need to know how the word "shadow" came to be used.
Poe's poem is notable for its use of symbols such as shadow and Eldorado, as well as other symbols. It helps to emphasize his main point even more. Other methods Poe employs to communicate with his audience include auditory and visual senses. Poe's poem uses the aabccb rhyme scheme in the first three stanzas and the xxabba rhyme scheme in the fourth. This is one way Poe amazingly appeals to the readers' senses of hearing and imagery. Poe authored a poem that was both stressed and un-stressed. When read aloud, the rhyme scheme produces a thumpity, thump sound, evoking the clattering of the horse's trot. In this poem, symbols and rhyme schemes help the reader get immersed in the scene. They also make them want to keep reading until the very end of the poem.
That ‘shadow' becomes increasingly sinister as the poem progresses: in the first stanza, it is simply the complement of sunshine; in the final stanza, it is capitalized, as 'Shadow,' and resonates with a deathly connotation. The Bible's 23rd Psalm is invoked in 'Down the Valley of the Shadow.'
[tex]The\ Lord\ is\ my\ shepherd;\ I\ shall\ not\ want.\\ He\ maketh\ me\ to\ lie\ down\ in\ green\ pastures:\\ he\ leadeth\ me\ beside\ the\ still\ waters.\\ He\ restoreth\ my\ soul:\ he\ leadeth\ me\ in\ the\\ paths\ of\ righteousness\ for\ his\ nime's\ sake.\\ Yea,\ though\ I\ walk\ through\ the\ valley\ of\ the\\ shadow\ of\ death,\ I\ will\ fear\ no\ evil:\ for\ thou\\ art\ with\ me;\ thy\ rod\ and\ thy\ staff\ they\\ comfort\ me.[/tex]
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