"The Raven ""The Raven"" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word ""Nevermore"". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references."
"team, was inspired by the poem. Chosen in a fan contest that drew 33,288 voters, the allusion honors Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore and is buried there. Text Commentary Illustrated Audio The Raven ""The Raven"" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss"
"1845 poem ""The Raven"", which features its titular bird perched over its protagonist's door instead of M. Noel's pigeon. This book is Süskind's followup to his nine-year bestselling first novel, ""Perfume"". Jonathan Noel, lost his parents during the World War II, grew up with his uncle. Was married but his wife abandoned him, and he decided to spend his life alone without drawing anyone's attention. Marie Baccouche, Jonathan's wife, she was already pregnant when she met him, later she left him for a Tunisian fruit-dealer. Madame Lasalle, the owner of Jonathan's room, his refuge. Eventually, she consents to sell him"
"of the poem entitled ""The Willows"" featuring the narrator, in the company of a woman called Mary, running out of credit at a bar: Ulalume ""Ulalume"" () is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as ""The Raven"", ""Annabel Lee"", and ""Lenore""), ""Ulalume"" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound. Additionally, it makes many allusions, especially to mythology, and the identity of Ulalume"
"Ulalume ""Ulalume"" () is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as ""The Raven"", ""Annabel Lee"", and ""Lenore""), ""Ulalume"" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound. Additionally, it makes many allusions, especially to mythology, and the identity of Ulalume herself, if a real person, has been a subject of debate. The poem takes place on a night in the ""lonesome October"" with a"
"The Raven (Italian fairy tale) The Raven is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". The story is a man winning a bride for his brother the king, and then having to protect the couple from perils that he can not tell anyone about, without being turned to stone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 516. Others of this type are ""Trusty John"", and ""Father Roquelaure"". It is an unusual variant, in that most tales feature the main character as a servant rather than a brother. A king named Milluccio once saw a dead"
"and further incite his feelings of loss. Poe leaves it unclear if the raven actually knows what it is saying or if it really intends to cause a reaction in the poem's narrator. The narrator begins as ""weak and weary,"" becomes regretful and grief-stricken, before passing into a frenzy and, finally, madness. Christopher F. S. Maligec suggests the poem is a type of elegiac paraclausithyron, an ancient Greek and Roman poetic form consisting of the lament of an excluded, locked-out lover at the sealed door of his beloved. Poe says that the narrator is a young scholar. Though this is"
"The narrator's final admission is that his soul is trapped beneath the raven's shadow and shall be lifted ""Nevermore"". Poe wrote the poem as a narrative, without intentional allegory or didacticism. The main theme of the poem is one of undying devotion. The narrator experiences a perverse conflict between desire to forget and desire to remember. He seems to get some pleasure from focusing on loss. The narrator assumes that the word ""Nevermore"" is the raven's ""only stock and store"", and, yet, he continues to ask it questions, knowing what the answer will be. His questions, then, are purposely self-deprecating"
"Zen-like calm provides needed refuge. The final image is of the lover being like some raven at the singer's window with a broken wing. This image recalls Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Raven"", but is also a symbol of the lover's vulnerability in spite of her strength. The broken wing may also be a reference to the woman's need for shelter, or else to a flaw in her. The style of the song's lyrics are comparable to William Blake's poem, ""The Sick Rose"", in their economy of language and use of a detached tone to express the narrator's intense emotional experience."
"Poe scholar and distant relative Harry Lee Poe says it is autobiographical and shows Poe's grief over the recent death of his wife Virginia. Scholar Scott Peeples notes that ""Ulalume"" serves as a sequel to ""The Raven"". Poetically, the name Ulalume emphasizes the letter ""L"", a frequent device in Poe's female characters such as ""Annabel Lee"", ""Eulalie"", and ""Lenore"". If it really stands for a deceased love, Poe's choosing to refer to Ulalume as ""the thing"" and ""the secret"" do not seem endearing terms. In one possible view, Ulalume may be representative of death itself. Much work has been done"
"Other Poems"" (1827), were inspired by his failed childhood romance with Royster, with many lines discussing the follies of youth and lost love. One of Poe's minor poems, ""Song,"" is presumed to be about Royster. She also believed that the ""lost Lenore"" in the poem ""The Raven"" as well as the title character in ""Annabel Lee"" were representative of her and claimed that Poe himself had assured her of it. Biographers, however, often debate Poe's inspiration, particularly for ""Annabel Lee"". Poe's wife Virginia, who had died two years prior to the poem's publication, was suggested by poet Frances Sargent Osgood"
"summer of 1844, when the poem was likely written, Poe, his wife, and mother-in-law were boarding at the farmhouse of Patrick Brennan. The location of the house, which was demolished in 1888, has been a disputed point and, while there are two different plaques marking its supposed location on West 84th Street, it most likely stood where 206 West 84th Street is now. In part due to its dual printing, ""The Raven"" made Edgar Allan Poe a household name almost immediately, and turned Poe into a national celebrity. Readers began to identify poem with poet, earning Poe the nickname ""The"
"""Let him meet the conqueror worm / With his good sword by his side"". ""The Conqueror Worm"" also uses the word ""evermore"", which would later evolve into ""nevermore"" in Poe's famous poem ""The Raven"" in 1845. The poem plays an important symbolic role as part of its inclusion in the short story ""Ligeia."" The poem is written by Ligeia as she is dying, though it is actually recited by the narrator, her husband. Because it emphasizes the finality of death, it calls to question Ligeia's resurrection in the story. Also, the inclusion of the bitter poem may have been meant"
"""The Raven"" liner notes. Production The Raven (Lou Reed album) The Raven is the nineteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in 2003 by Sire Records. It is a concept album, recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song, and was based on his 2000 opera co-written with Robert Wilson, ""POEtry"". ""The Raven"" features new and very different versions of two songs that Reed had released on earlier albums: ""Perfect Day"" (originally found on 1972's ""Transformer"") and ""The Bed"" (from 1973's ""Berlin""). In addition to Reed, the album features a number"
"The Raven (1935 film) The Raven is a 1935 American horror film directed by Lew Landers (billed under his real name, Louis Friedlander) and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. The picture revolves around Edgar Allan Poe's famous homonymous poem, featuring Lugosi as a Poe-obsessed mad surgeon with a torture chamber in his basement and Karloff as a fugitive murderer desperately on the run from the police. Lugosi had the lead role but Karloff received top billing, using only his last name, Universal Studio's publicity strategy during much of the decade while Karloff was at his height, ending with ""Son"
"The Raven (Lou Reed album) The Raven is the nineteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in 2003 by Sire Records. It is a concept album, recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song, and was based on his 2000 opera co-written with Robert Wilson, ""POEtry"". ""The Raven"" features new and very different versions of two songs that Reed had released on earlier albums: ""Perfect Day"" (originally found on 1972's ""Transformer"") and ""The Bed"" (from 1973's ""Berlin""). In addition to Reed, the album features a number of guest vocalists including Laurie"
"to calm him. Poe is asked to leave the Allan family but Virginia offers to come along. Poe's recently purchased slave comes along as well. Poe has an alcohol-induced hallucination that recreates his poem (and the film's namesake) ""The Raven"". As Poe sits alone, he hears a tapping at the chamber door. The door knocker moves on its own and Poe thinks he sees the outline of a large, black bird. As Poe stumbles outside, the word ""wine"" appearing on a rock he braces himself against, he sees a ghost. As he reaches for another sip of wine, a human"
"had punished them all for their acts against him, but the punishment had been enough. He restored the babies to life. The Raven (Italian fairy tale) The Raven is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". The story is a man winning a bride for his brother the king, and then having to protect the couple from perils that he can not tell anyone about, without being turned to stone. It is Aarne-Thompson type 516. Others of this type are ""Trusty John"", and ""Father Roquelaure"". It is an unusual variant, in that"
"of ""Timur Lenk"", the 14th-century warlord who founded the Timurid Empire, though the poem is not a historical depiction of his life. Tamerlane ignores the young love he has for a peasant in order to achieve power. On his deathbed, he regrets this decision to create ""a kingdom [in exchange] for a broken heart"". The peasant is named Ada in most of Poe's original version of the poem, though it is removed and re-added throughout its many revised versions. The name ""Ada"" is likely a reference to Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, a renowned poet whom Poe admired."
"The Raven (song) ""The Raven"" is a 1975 song by the Alan Parsons Project from their album ""Tales of Mystery and Imagination"", and first song of the band. The song is based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same name; the song was written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, and was originally recorded in April 1975, at Mama Jo's Studio, North Hollywood, Los Angeles and Abbey Road Studios, London. It was one of the first rock songs to use a vocoder, developed by EMI, to distort vocals. It is also one of the few songs by the"
"reveals that her name was “good, fair White.” The poet, still not understanding the metaphorical chess game, asks the black knight to finish the story and explain what was lost. The knight tells the story of his fumbling declaration of love and the long time it took for the love to be reciprocated and that they were in perfect harmony for many years. Still the narrator does not understand, and asks the whereabouts of White. The knight finally blurts out that White is dead. The poet realises what has occurred as the hunt ends and the poet awakes with his"
"Shadow of the Raven Shadow of the Raven is the eighth album by gothic duo Nox Arcana. This time the composers Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski honor Edgar Allan Poe, the author of ""The Masque of the Red Death"", ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"", ""The Fall of the House of Usher, ""The Tell-Tale Heart"" and other tales of suspense and horror, as well as the famous poem ""The Raven"". The classical, symphonic instrumental music is primarily made up of piano, violin, pipe organ, harpsichord and some music box melodies that have been described as suspenseful and melancholy. The album"
"The Blessed Damozel ""The Blessed Damozel"" is perhaps the best known poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as the title of some of his best known paintings. The poem was first published in 1850 in the Pre-Raphaelite journal ""The Germ"". Rossetti subsequently revised the poem twice and republished it in 1856, 1870 and 1873. The poem was partially inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem ""The Raven"", with its depiction of a lover grieving on Earth over the death of his loved one. Rossetti chose to represent the situation in reverse. The poem describes the damozel observing her lover from"
"a poem combining so much of the fiercest passion with so much of the most delicate imagination."" Poe first brought ""The Raven"" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of ""Graham's Magazine"" in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 as charity. Poe then sold the poem to """", which paid him $9 for it, and printed ""The Raven"" in its February 1845 issue under the pseudonym ""Quarles"", a reference to the English poet Francis Quarles. The poem's first publication with Poe's name was in the"
"and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."" Some commentators have taken this to imply that pure poetry can only be attained by the eradication of female beauty. Biographers and critics have often suggested that Poe's obsession with this theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his mother Eliza Poe, his foster mother Frances Allan and, later, his wife Virginia. In the essay, Poe traces the logical progression of his creation of ""The Raven"" as an attempt to compose ""a poem that should"
"own life as well, either to the early loss of his mother, Eliza Poe, or the long illness endured by his wife, Virginia. Ultimately, Poe considered ""The Raven"" an experiment to ""suit at once the popular and critical taste"", accessible to both the mainstream and high literary worlds. It is unknown how long Poe worked on ""The Raven""; speculation ranges from a single day to ten years. Poe recited a poem believed to be an early version with an alternate ending of ""The Raven"" in 1843 in Saratoga, New York. An early draft may have featured an owl. In the"
"marriage to Virginia in order to prevent Poe's involvement with Eliza White. T. W. White's apprentice in old age would later say that Poe and Eliza were nothing more than friends. The poem was renamed to the ambiguous ""To —"" in the August 1839 issue of ""Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine"". With minor revisions, it was finally renamed in honor of Frances Sargent Osgood and published in the 1845 collection ""The Raven and Other Poems"". The speaker asks the addressee, ""Thou wouldst be loved?"" and suggest she stay on her current path to achieve that goal. The original manuscript was sent to"
"was convoluted and difficult to follow, but made references to secret societies and ultimately had a main theme of revenge. It included a character named Marmaduke Hammerhead, the famous author of ""The Black Crow"", who uses phrases like ""Nevermore"" and ""lost Lenore"", referring to Poe's poem ""The Raven"". This parody of Poe was depicted as a drunkard, liar, and an abusive lover. Poe responded with ""The Cask of Amontillado"", using very specific references to English's novel. In Poe's story, for example, Fortunato makes reference to the secret society of Masons, similar to the secret society in ""1844"", and even makes"
"""lore"", while the majority of the tales are wholly concerned with ""lust"". The frame story as such is easily summarised. The narrator of this section, conventionally referred to as Amans or the Lover, wanders through a forest in May, as medieval lovers typically do, and despairs at his lack of success. He invokes Venus and Cupid, who promptly appear and demand to know the reason for his sorrow. Upon being told that he is on the verge of dying from love, Venus insists that he be shriven, and summons her chaplain Genius to hear his confession. When at last Genius"
"inspired by Virginia, though other women in Poe's life are potential candidates including Frances Sargent Osgood and Sarah Helen Whitman. A similar poem, ""Ulalume"", is also believed to be a memorial tribute to Virginia, as is ""Lenore"", whose title character is described as ""the most lovely dead that ever died so young!"" After Poe's death, George Gilfillan of the London-based ""Critic"" said Poe was responsible for his wife's death, ""hurrying her to a premature grave, that he might write 'Annabel Lee' and 'The Raven'"". The aforementioned critic was either unconcerned with, or unaware of, the fact that ""The Raven"" was"
"mother, whom Cooper loved but felt was cold to her. Once during her childhood her mother told her she hated Miriam for looking like her (Miriam's) father. Her mother remarried in 1914. During this time, Cooper found solace by playing in an abandoned Dutch cemetery. She would lie on the graves and daydream. To make her sister Lenore behave, she also became a storyteller, repeating Edgar Allan Poe's poem ""The Raven"" and saying it was named for her. Cooper cited these experiences as great influences both on her acting and on her Christian faith. Never intending to be an actress,"
"Simon Raven Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence. His obituary in ""The Guardian"" noted that, ""he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester"", and that he reminded Noel Annan, his Cambridge tutor, of the young Guy Burgess. Among the many things said about him, perhaps the most quoted was that he had ""the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel"". E W Swanton called Raven's cricket"
"other, mostly classical works, from each of his lines. The seven-line poem, according to Poe's notes, refers to John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"", William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope. Written in 1847 for Marie Louise Shew, voluntary nurse of Poe's wife Virginia, it was not published until March 1848 in ""Columbian Magazine"" as ""To —— ——."" Poe never pursued a romantic relationship with Shew, and the poem has no strong romantic overtones. It discusses the writer's inability to write, distracted by the thought of ""thee."" The poem also references an earlier poem of Poe, ""Israfel."" Never published in Poe's lifetime, it was"