 Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till...  New National Fifth Reader - Page 456by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
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...send "back into the tempest." The ravens one repeated word appears at first to be slavish parrotry, "Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore" (944). But for Poe, inhabiting a South haunted by the shadow of Haiti, Nat Turner, and sectional conflict,... | |
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...— on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore of "Never — nevermore." But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, straight I wheeled... | |
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