The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

[kellyrfineman]

Yesterday, I spent about an hour and a half considering what poem to select to follow Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning, and I couldn't pick - in part because I was trying to select something linked to a line or theme of the poem. But when I woke up this morning, it was to hear lines from Poe ringing through my head, which works quite well in

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[wordsrmylife]

Christopher Walken has the perfect voice for this, especially if you didn't grow up with Vincent Price. "The Raven" is the one of Poe's poems I remember appreciating when I was young and thought the rest of his stuff too sappy for words.

Without this, what would Terry Pratchett have possibly called his raven?

[kellyrfineman]

Pratchett being Pratchett, he'd have come up with something.

[lisa_schroeder]

Wow, cool performance! Do you think he had all of that memorized?

[kellyrfineman]

I'm certain that Vincent Price did. It's easily possible that Christopher Walken did as well.

[kellyrfineman]

It was perfectly charming otherwise - I shared a glass of wine (okay, we each had our own glasses) with Pat Lewis, then heard Dan Maguire read poetry (I read 2 new poems during the open reading session - and lo, they work. One of them was the West Laurel Hill Cemetery poem that you've already read.

[amygreenfield]

Thanks so much for this! Wish I lived closer to Charlottesville or Austin, though.

(I once had a Bulgarian friend recite The Bells for me. Gave me a whole new appreciation of Poe, believe it or not.)

[kellyrfineman]

Poe is decidedly excellent when read aloud.

Edgar agrees...

[slatts]

You "use" him so well!

Great post!

Re: Edgar agrees...

[kellyrfineman]

Your Edgar is just so stunning . . .