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Old 12-30-2006, 03:20 PM   #12
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Blast! I missed out on the good portion of this conversation...

I love "The Raven"; first bit of Poe I was ever exposed to, and it shall always be near my heart.

The way this poem was set up was amazing to me. The narrator is already depressed, and thinking about someone who has died, and along comes a tap, so he answers the door. Nothing there but darkness and silence, then an echo of his own utterance (ooo, scary!). Suddenly, he hears the tap again, but realizes that it is at the window, which he goes to answer, and it all goes to hell from there...

I love the idea of how a coincidence brought about by a brainless talking bird can drive a man into insanity in less than one night.
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