" The narrator wheels a cushioned seat in front of his visitor, who "beguiles all" his "sad soul to smiling."
This poem's author expressed a desire to restrict it to "the limit of one sitting" in "The Philosophy of Composition." The narrator wheels a cushioned seat in front of his visitor, who "beguiles all" his "sad soul to smiling." Shortly after, the air grows "denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor." The narrator calls the title character a "thing of evil," and demands to know whether he will be reunited with "the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore." For 10 points, name this poem set "once upon a midnight dreary," an Edgar Allen Poe poem about an "ebony bird," who only says "nevermore."
This poem's author expressed a desire to restrict it to "the limit of one sitting" in "The Philosophy of Composition.
"The Raven"