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The Raven, and The Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven, and The Philosophy of Composition

  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    I pretend to no originality in either the rhythm or meter of “The Raven.” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    for centuries, no man, in verse, has ever done, or ever seemed to think of doing, an original thing
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    My first object (as usual) was originality.
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    Truth, in fact, demands a precision
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression—for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    Most writers—poets in especial—prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine phrenzy—an ecstatic intuition—and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes
  • Ignat Petrenkocompartió una citahace 6 años
    every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen
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