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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

That is when he hit upon the idea of a non-human serving as the chorus: I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word. .&# Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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