...Nevermore!" " Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend," I shriek'dj upstarting, " Get thee back into the tempest, and the night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as in token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken,—quit the bust above my door,—...

...bird or fiend !" I sliri upstarting — " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plut shore I Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spi Leave my loneliness unbroken! — quit the bust above my < Take thy beak from out my heart, and...

...poem, despite all our attempts at self-justification, it casts its shadow on the soul, and we cry, " Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off iny door" in vain. We should like to cast it from \is and banish it into oblivion, but like the sword...

...XVII. " Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting— '•' Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore...that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off...

...apparent the "undercurrent of meaning" that runs through the poem. The seventeenth stanza concludes: "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore!" "It will be observed that the words, 'from out my heart/ involve the first metaphorical...

...of action: " 'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting— 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!...heart, and take thy form from off my door!' Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" A lesser artist would have ended the poem here. But Poe knew that action is transitory,...

...that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting, — "Get thee back into tlie tempest and the night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no...heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid...

...suddenly there came a tapping. As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 8811 'The Raven' it being Sunday, had Divine Service. 364 (results of a 1997 tourist survey) T Raven, 'Nevermore'. POGREBIN Letty Cottin 8812 Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. 8813 No...

...narrative which has preceded them. The under current of meaning is rendered ftrst apparent in the lines — "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my dixir!" Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!" emblematical — but it is not until the very last line of the...

...(referring to the crow's near kin and look-alike) did nothing to help matters — especially the lines "Take thy beak from out my heart, / and take thy form from off my door! / Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'" In our part of Ohio, crows begin nest-building in late March and early April....