Poe and his Raven
Edgar Allan Poe... he seems to believe that the thought process for writng a poem is not a divine intution and that its quite mathematical and all that... he explained it in this essay "The Philosophy of Composition" with the help of an example... "The Raven", a poem he wrote... We read thru this essay and this poem in our HS class and my ma'am encouraged us to write an extension to "The Raven"... it was one of the questions asked in today's paper... chk http://www.poeticbyway.com/philo.htm for the essay... the original poem: The Raven [First published in 1845] Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it wa