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I've been hearing about Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven for just about my entire life so when I found this little collection on my mother's bookshelf I thought I'd take a look at what everyone was talking about. I love this genre for one thing; the gothical, horror type works from the 19th century are certainly my kind of read. I was quite surprized by how easy Poe's work was to understand at least in this collection as I always go into poetry thinking I'm not going to understand it and it's going to contain a ton of references that I won't know and that short of thing. While Poe's poems do have references, I didn't feel that that detracted from my enjoyment of the rhythm and the flow of the words. All in all, I enjoyed finally getting my hands on some of this much discussed writer's work and I'll be sure to add a few of his quotes to my blog!

2022-11-14 17:20