The speaker
The poem follows a grieving reader whose questions become increasingly personal.
English editionPoetry · Gothic literature
A midnight visitor. A question asked again.
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BETWEEN THE COVERS
A grieving speaker hears a tapping at his door during a solitary night of reading. A raven enters his room, and its repeated answer draws him further into thoughts of loss.
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem builds its atmosphere through rhythm, internal rhyme and repetition. Read the original English poem here in one section.
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A LITTLE FURTHER INTO THE BOOK
The poem follows a grieving reader whose questions become increasingly personal.
The chamber, the door and the raven’s perch give the encounter a precise physical space.
Read a stanza aloud and notice how its returning sounds change the force of the final word.
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