This poem's author describes setting up this poem's "circumscription of space" in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition".
This poem's author describes setting up this poem's "circumscription of space" in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition". Its narrator "wheeled a cushioned seat" and sat with his "head at ease reclining" until "the air grew denser, perfumed by an unseen censer". Asking if there is "balm in Gilead", this poem takes place in "bleak December" and opens "once upon a midnight dreary" as the narrator ponders "weak and weary". Its narrator commands the title figure to return to "Night's Plutonian shore", calling it a "prophet" and "thing of evil" that evokes memories of Lenore. For 10 points, name this poem about an "ebony bird" who repeats "Nevermore", written by Edgar Allen Poe.
This poem's author describes setting up this poem's "circumscription of space" in his essay "The Philosophy of Composition".
"The Raven" 