Its narrator then wonders if the title character was sent as "respite and nepenthe," terming it "Prophet!…thing of evil," and asking it to return to "Night's Plutonian Shore."
In La Disparition, Anton Vowl translates this poem into French without using the letter E. An essay about the creation of this poem begins by citing Dickens' assertion that Godwin wrote Caleb Williams backwards, and describes its author's choice of a refrain with a long O and an R. Its structure was inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," and James Russell Lowell's "Fable for Critics" mentions this poem before comparing its author to Barnaby Rudge. Its narrator thinks the air is "perfumed by an unseen censer / Swung by seraphim," and later asks if another character will inhabit "the distant Aidenn." Its narrator then wonders if the title character was sent as "respite and nepenthe," terming it "Prophet!…thing of evil," and asking it to return to "Night's Plutonian Shore." However, it "never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting / on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door." For 10 points, name this poem about a creature that quoths "Nevermore."
In La Disparition, Anton Vowl translates this poem into French without using the letter E. An essay about the creation of this poem begins by citing Dickens' assertion that Godwin wrote Caleb Williams backwards, and describes its author's choice of a refrain with a long O and an R.
“The {Raven}”