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What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking “Nevermore.” This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
- Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,...
- Annabel Lee
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking “Nevermore.” This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated ...
Everybody’s favorite Edgar Allan Poe poem. Endlessly quoted (quoth?) and frequently parodied. The only famous example of trochaic octameter in English verse, although Poe… Read More. Only this...
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
The raven is the most important symbol in this poem, which explains the title. This raven is signifying the loss that the character has suffered. Through the window of realization, his loss comes flying in to face him.
1 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, 2 Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — 3 While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, 4 As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 5 "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
6 Οκτ 2012 · Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door— Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore."
