I think this is one of Poe's finest works. To narrate a brief story with beauty, cadence, and lyrical language, coupled with the undercurrent of mourning and despair, these elements culminate in a poem that lingers. On the surface, a grieving man sits alone in his chamber until he is visited by a raven whose presence seems to deepen his sorrow. The Raven speaks only one word: "Nevermore." Yet it is precisely this abruptness and brevity that produced such a powerful effect on both me and the prot...

Poe — Are you OK!!

Beautiful, classic, and creepy. I feel like Poe needs a hug or a weighted blanket. Heartbreaking.🖤🖤

Wes Craven. by Federico DNFor the love of God, poetry please begone!I loathe ye! Can’t thou see? Just let me be!Obliterated my soul, poetry stands alone...................Curious I will be, “Nevermore.”----------------------------------------------- PERSONAL NOTE : [1845] [6p] [Horror] [Poetry] [Conditional Recommendable][It’s public domain. You can find it HERE.]One of the best poems ever written. Poe’s. Not mine!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

A comprehensive and exhaustive work of Poe, on a lover’s grief and affliction, lamenting over his tragic lost love. With the focus on death, the supernatural, battle between emotions vs cogency, the poem circles around “Dark Romanticism” The poem’s opening line, sets the perfect meter for grief and distress-Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and wearyThe narrator is wearied out, and finds the night to be totally depressing and drab! The 3 main characters of the poem are- 1. The...

The Raven is a piercing piece by Edgar Allan Poe who I am reading for the very first time. I read it with holding the breath in an unnamable, haunting feeling due to the eerie atmosphere created by the poet through the verses. It’s a dreary, windy winter night with only a flicker of an old lamp burning like a symbol of hope, you feel the crushing effect on your heart, which is pounding heavily, of such a gothic setting, the horror gets intensified when the poundings on the rags of your old door,...

One freezing December evening, a man in his room, dozing over his book, thought of Lenore, his now-deceased sweetheart.But noise at her door knocked her out of her reverie. After making several hypotheses and finally making up its mind, it opens up and, despite its inactivity, to a majestic crow. Amused but intrigued, he stupidly asks her name. The raven then responds, "Never again." The narrator questions himself and asks other questions.But the crow responds every time, Never again.Paralyzed, ...

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted—nevermore! Themes such as loss and relentless melancholy - nothing foreign to Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - combined with a repetitive rhythm that gives it a unique and gradually oppressive musicality resulted in one of the best literary works of all time, The Raven. This edition, first published in 1844, includes the steel-plate engravings by renowned French artist Gustave Doré (1832–1883), ...

Nevermore! ...........Read this poem, listen to this poem and study the drawings of Gustave Dore... and know this is a unique masterpiece. Hauntingly beautiful. Brooding, dark, desperate, mysterious... These starting lines are famous I think:Once upon a midnight dreary,while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volumeof forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping,suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping,rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visiter," I m...

Shall we descend into madness? Shall we be haunted by our own desires? Shall we be consumed by that terrible facet of life known only as death? Shall we cling to what cannot be reanimated? Shall we wish for a return of something that has long been in darkness? Shall we become obliterated by the brutal finality of such a statement as “nevermore?” Lenore has gone. She has departed from this life, and is permanently out of the reach of the man. The raven represents the solidarity of this. Despite h...

Beautiful, classic prose.

Reread as part of going through his complete works. This one will always be one of my favorites!