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...engenders its own compulsion-to-sense" (p- 99) — cannot be evaded, as the next stanza indicates: Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." The final absorption in the project of understanding is emphasized here by the enjambment on the word...

...'Never—nevermore.'" But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancv unto fancv, thinking what this ominous bird of vore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,...

...But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet...in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease...

...burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.' '' Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird...in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; 75 This and more I sat divining, with my head at...

...'Never-nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet...in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease...

...But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling. Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then upon the velvet...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." In a mood of anxiety a person may sink into a linking of fancy unto fancy, thinking ominous depressing...

...But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then upon the velvet...myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what his ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant...

...nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly,...

...statue of Pallas, a figure from ancient Greek mythology. The bird can speak only one word: "Nevermore!" Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." The air in the room grows thick. The narrator screams angrily at the bird and demands to know what...