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The Raven
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"The Raven" is a narrative poem of the Gothic horror genre published in 1845. Oft parodied and referenced, it is the most famous work by author Edgar Allan Poe, and to this day is one of the most well-known pieces of English poetry ever written.It tells the tale of an unidentified narrator who is mourning the loss of his love, Lenore, when he is interrupted by the tapping of a raven whose constant (yet strangely fitting) repetition of the word "Nevermore" increasingly aggravates him to the point of madness.Here and here you can listen to it in the voice of Christopher Lee (two separate readings). Here's one by John de Lancie. There's also one by Tay Zonday. Here's another by Vincent Price. Here's one by James Earl Jones (here it is without music, and another a la Darth Vader). Right here is yet another, this time by Stan Lee. Still another, by Basil Rathbone here. Yet another by Alan Rickman.Roger Corman's 1963 film version is a very loose adaptation, mostly Played for Laughs, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff, with an early appearance from Jack Nicholson.The Alan Parsons Project based a song on the poem, as did Queen. Gustave Doré illustrated it too. Another one, purely instrumental, was done by Nox Arcana.Omnia beautifully set the words to harp music. See it here.Parodied in the poem, The End of the Raven by Poe's Cat. The Simpsons also did an Animated Adaptation of it for its first Treehouse of Horror episode, narrated by James Earl Jones. While it still has the show's typical humor, as well as snarky commentary from Bart & Lisa, it's a surprisingly straight and faithful version. | |
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Once Upon a Time | |
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Once Upon a Time: "Once upon a midnight dreary..." the narrator reflected on the love that he lost. | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: The narrator laments "Lenore", the love of his life who previously died, and when he first answers the door, he calls out her name. | |
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You Can Talk? | |
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You Can Talk?: When the raven first speaks, the narrator "marvelled such ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly". | |
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Ominous Knocking | |
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Ominous Knocking: The story opens with a late-night knock that first confuses, then frightens the bereaved narrator. The knocking continues for six stanzas, each making him more disturbed and uncomfortable- this lasts even after he opens the door, to find nobody there. Then he finds it was a raven knocking at the window, and things just get worse from there. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The narrator is driven to desperate madness and the raven remains in his house, still reminding him of what he has lost. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: The narrator comes across as a lonely man, and he grows increasingly desperate as he keeps venting at a bird that mostly just stares at him. | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: The raven itself doesn't seem to be evil per se, contrary to most media portrayals, just a reminder of the narrator's lost love. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: ...and how. The narrator goes from mostly sane, if a bit grief-stricken, to a catatonic wreck on the floor within a matter of minutes, all because a bird showed up. It's left ambiguous as to whether he's just emotionally distraught or actually delusional, since it's unclear if the raven is real or, if it is, if it's actually speaking. | |
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Polly Wants a Microphone | |
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Polly Wants a Microphone: The Ur-Example, in horror terms. The narrator begs of the bird to answer increasingly desperate questions about the afterlife and the hope of reuniting with his Lost Lenore, but the raven constantly answers, "Nevermore," rather pessimistically. Maybe if he worded his questions differently he'd get better answers. As Poe himself said in The Philosophy of Composition, parrot was the first bird that came to his mind, but just wasn't ominous enough: | |
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The Thing That Would Not Leave | |
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The Thing That Would Not Leave: The narrator repeatedly tells the raven to Get Out! after he begins to slowly lose his mind. The bird stays right where it is, just repeating the word "nevermore" over and over. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Quoth the Raven: 'Nevermore.'" The raven just says this one word over and over. It's unknown whether the raven is just an ordinary bird that's repeating a word over and over, or if it's some sort of supernatural entity sent to torment the narrator. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Lenore, of course, who is dead before the narrative begins but whose name is uttered quite often throughout. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: The raven perching on top of a bust of Pallas (an epithet of Athena, the Greek Goddess of wisdom), represents the supernatural taking control of rationality. In the context of the poem, the narrator's rationality is slowly eroding by supernatural thoughts. It could also represent that the raven itself is wise, or that the narrator at least thinks it is.It would actually make sense for the narrator to think of the raven as wise considering that ravens, like other corvids, are widely known for being extremely intelligent in real life. | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: The end of the fourth and fifth lines in each paragraph use the same word. Said word also rhymes with a different word on line 2, and the arc word on line 6. | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out!: After having enough of the Raven mocking him, the narrator yells at it to "Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!". The bird refuses to leave. | |
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It's Probably Nothing | |
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It's Probably Nothing: The narrator repeatedly tries to dismiss the noises he hears as only the wind. | |
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Feathered Fiend | |
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Feathered Fiend: Played with in regards to the titular raven. While it's not actively evil — heck, it's not even clear if the bird is real — its presence still haunts and torments the narrator and it spends most of its pagetime reminding him of his loss. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: The narrator is never given a name, and neither is the raven. Really, Lenore is the only thing keeping the poem from being a Nameless Narrative. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Both possibilities are briefly touched on - whether the bird is/was sent by some unnatural force, or if it was just someone's pet taught to utter a single word. Another interpretation is that the narrator's grief is slowly driving him insane, and that the raven was either a hallucination or it was real but the narrator only thought it was talking when it actually wasn't. | |
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Word of God | |
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As Poe himself said in The Philosophy of Composition, parrot was the first bird that came to his mind, but just wasn't ominous enough: | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Even when the raven is visible and on the perch, the raven does nothing beyond responding with the word "Nevermore". The narrator, after hearing a tapping on his door, opens it. "Darkness there, and nothing more." The only thing that comes out of this is one solitary raven; nothing else jumps out at him, and nothing attacks him. | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary... | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: There really is nothing necessarily supernatural about the raven. The entire poem is the narrator projecting his own frustrated grief onto a random bird, and losing his mind in the process. In fact, one of the narrator's saner speculations is that the bird is just a normal raven, randomly mimicking some other individual who'd suffered this trope, and moaned "Nevermore" where it could overhear. Once the bird continues to say it, however, he becomes overrun with grief. | |
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No Full Name Given | |
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No Full Name Given: We don't know Lenore's last name. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: Trope Namer. The narrator's lover, Lenore, is long dead, and the story catches him during a particular moment of grief. The raven showing up when it does just makes him go insane because he projects his own grief and sadness onto it. | |
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Creepy Crows | |
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Creepy Crows: The ominous-looking black bird is a raven. Shout Outs to Poe's version abound. | |
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