 | Jeff Mitscherling, Jeffrey Anthony Mitscherling - Aesthetics, Modern - 1997 - 263 pages
...apparent the "undercurrent of meaning" that runs through the poem. The seventeenth stanza concludes: "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore!" "It will be observed that the words, 'from out my heart/ involve the first metaphorical expression... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 872 pages
...bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting— 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie...form from off my door!' Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" A lesser artist would have ended the poem here. But Poe knew that action is transitory, so he wrote... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...suddenly there came a tapping. As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 8811 'The Raven' it being Sunday, had Divine Service. 364 (results of a 1997 tourist survey) The overall impresslo POGREBIN Letty Cottin 8812 Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. 8813 No labourer in the world... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 228 pages
...narrative which has preceded them. The under current of meaning is rendered ftrst apparent in the lines — "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my dixir!" Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!" emblematical — but it is not until the very last line of the... | |
 | David Kline - Nature - 1999 - 236 pages
...(referring to the crow's near kin and look-alike) did nothing to help matters — especially the lines "Take thy beak from out my heart, / and take thy form...from off my door! / Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'" In our part of Ohio, crows begin nest-building in late March and early April. Four or five eggs are... | |
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Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting. " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the... 
