The Raven

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The Raven

• E.A. Poe
• Presentation to the Southern Literary Messenger,
  1845

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Background

• Bleak December
• In Chamber, nearly napping
• Midnight Dreary
• Weak, Weary
• Tapping
• Muttering

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Ongoing Concerns, cont.

• Dying Embers
• Uncertain rustling, air of mystery
• Bibliophilia
• Imaginary visitor
• Peering, peering
• Burning soul
• Whispering Lenore

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Total Year Net Losses

• Lenore 100
• Sanity - 95
• Embers 80

Accounting provided by Arthur Andersen, Esq.
It must be noted that the lack of visitors
contributed greatly to the above statistics
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Present concerns

• Tapping a mystery
• Hopes flown
• Enter bird from days of yore

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Present Concerns, Cont.

• Air Denser
• Conversing with Raven
• Gloating
• Wretched
• Lenore, Lenore
• Nights on Plutonian shore

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Total Year Net Gains

• New catchphrase Nevermore
• Raven (no craven) permanently stationed above the
  chamber door
• Ornithophobia
• Increase in Terror quotient (75 over last
  quarter)
• Dreaming dreams no mortal has ever dreamed
  before
• Cardiac Arrhythmia

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Net Gains Cont.
Increase in reading quantity and comprehension as
a direct factor of Lenore loss
Dec Nov Oct Sept Aug July June May Apr Mar Feb Jan
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20
Number of Books Read
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Projections

• Raven never flitting
• Still sitting, still sitting
• Nevermore
• Eyes like demons dreaming
• Shadows on the floor
• Soul lying on the floor lifted nevermore