...scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!" This I whispered,...

...I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more. 25 Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered,...

...University Press, Cambridge, 1958. Reprint: Dover, New York. 490 24 DARKNESS AT NIGHT Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing....dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (1845) THE GREAT RIDDLE An inferno of stars There is a simple and important...

...door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,...

...chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,...dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!" This I whispered,...

...opening paragraph! Likewise, his famous poem "The Raven" said: Deep into that darkness peering, longl stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming...silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token. It was cosmologist Edward Harrison who unearthed the Poe reference that correctly explained what is...

..."Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." — "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there,...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." — "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." — Edgar Allan Poe "The dreamers of the...

...portal, Crowned with calm leaves she stands Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands. 3. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before 4. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields. 5. Time drives the flocks...

...these literary techniques are employed repeatedly throughout the poem, as in the following couplet: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before (P&T, 82) Occasionally, too, Poe offered suggestive allusion -to mythology ("Pallas" Pallas Athena,...

...That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...word, 'Lenore!' This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!' Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within...