That subject stands upon a "pallid bust of Pallas" and plagues the speaker with memories of his "lost Lenore."
James Russell Lowell wrote that the author of this poem and this poem's subject were "three fifths genius" and "two fifths sheer fudge," and the author of this poem explained its didactic nature in his "The Philosophy of Composition." The speaker of this poem laments that "On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before," and asks the subject "what thy lordly name is on the night's Plutonian shore." That subject stands upon a "pallid bust of Pallas" and plagues the speaker with memories of his "lost Lenore." For 10 points, name this poem whose title figure "quoth 'Nevermore,'" an Edgar Allan Poe poem about a big black bird.
James Russell Lowell wrote that the author of this poem and this poem's subject were "three fifths genius" and "two fifths sheer fudge," and the author of this poem explained its didactic nature in his "The Philosophy of Composition."
"The Raven"