1. A Discussion of "The Raven- by Edgar Allan Poe
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"" (Poe 1). So begins Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven- a poem that exposes the despair of one man over losing his lover and the self-inflicted pain he brings on himself with the help of a bird. ... When the narrator asks the raven his name half heartedly the raven replies "Nevermore- (Poe 48). ... Clifford Edwards, in an essay review originally published in Masterplots II: Poetry, explains that probably the most unique thing about Poe's "The Raven- is how the narrator asks his questions in a way that he will obviously kno...
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