...— 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...whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed raster till his songs one burden bore — Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of...

...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,...

...— 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...