THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe FULL Audio Book, Multilingual English, French, Spanish, German
THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe FULL Audio Book, Multilingual Edition English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Yiddish The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man s slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word Nevermore. The poem makes use of a number of folk and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 followup essay The Philos br, br,
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