Quoth the maven, "Never snore".....
...wait....
2007-10-07 18:35:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as if someone gently tapping, rapping at my chamber door...(I memorized that whole darn poem forever in high school, and it still sticks in my mind...)
As for how it affected my life...(now an evil hideous booming voice with the sound of whooshing air in the background and a beating heart caused by a pendulum and a human organ under the floorboards)
"I'm now a raving drunken maniac stalker on this website...!"
Doo Wah! Doo Wah!
"And your immortal soul is now mine...mine...mine...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !" (evil laughter echoeing down the halls of eternity...!"
2007-10-07 19:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It is true that Edgar Allan Poe had a very depressing life. I believe all of his works are influenced in some way by his life. Even if he is known for his horror short stories and such, the fact that his love poems are very different does not mean that they do not relate to this past. Many of the poems are said to have been written at different times when Poe was in love with one young girl or another. He eventuall married his cousin I think..and she died at a young age. Poems don't have to be straight out from someone's past, but can be severly influenced by it. He suffered many tragedies, and his poems reflect that as well.
2016-04-07 21:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've learned the following life-lessons:
1) Never give a razor to an orangutan.
2) If anyone invites you over and uses "Amontillado" in the same sentence ... politely decline.
3) If you're ever at a masquerade ball, avoid the guy in gray.
4) Make sure your relatives really are dead when you bury them.
5) And if a raven "never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" ... I should probably stop talking to it and just throw a shoe or something ...
2007-10-08 19:59:52 · answer #3 · answered by Ajsansker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I go to Sullivans Island in South Carolina, I eat at Poes. It is an awesome little restaurant/pub by the beach named for Poe. He served in the military and was stationed there and wrote The Raven! I have pictures of the inside if you want to see. Someone painted a rock to look like his head and then put it in a glass case. It looks like someone beheaded him! I, of course took a pic of it!
(I posted you a pic of Poe in our special place Dalek)
2007-10-07 23:52:24 · answer #4 · answered by Leepal 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To this day I admire the genius of the man to name that Raven
Quoth......... It's strange ... unexpected.......and fitting.
The Fall of the House of Usher has a beginning and an ending
that have defined old ( and modern ) horror movies.
To 'set' the mood.
I considered him my ultimate hero when it came to 'blackness'
But then I discovered Saki ( H.H Munro ) and read Sredni
Vashtar and any other short story has paled after that.
2007-10-08 10:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sigh.
Never more quoth the Raven, Never more..
As I lay my still beating heart 'neath the floorboards, ever to be hidden from sight, never to be bruised anymore.
;)
2007-10-07 18:40:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, am I going to have fun with you on this one.
"And so come down again
Nevermore contented things
Have brought a sleepyman
Upon their quivering wings"
" The hero is in my hand,
And the raven is on my brow,
Thoughts and eyes grand,
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now.
2007-10-07 19:21:02 · answer #7 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't that Nedgar Fallen Snow?
2007-10-07 18:46:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He invented my favorite sand when he was a young lad. The one I shall eat---evermore; the Poe Boy snadwich.
2007-10-08 04:03:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I get a lot of jokes from the Simpsons.
2007-10-07 18:48:10 · answer #10 · answered by Patrick E 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋