Choose three words from different parts of the "The Raven" that have strong connotations. Identify what these connotations are, and explain how they impact the meaning, mood, and tone of the passages. Then look up each word in a resource and identify another word that has a similar denotation but slightly different connotation. Analyze how replacing Poe's words with these others would affect the meaning, mood, and tone of the passages in which they appear—and perhaps reduce the cumulative effect such words are intended to produce in the poem as a whole.