Bravo, very good ❤❤❤

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20 күн бұрын

Thank you very much! I’m glad you like it! 😊

A very nice reading. However, I have concluded from over a decade of independent research, that Edgar Allan Poe wasn't the author. I believe it was written from real-life circumstances, in 1841, by Mathew Franklin Whittier, the younger brother of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Poe, who never published in his lifetime (despite having a copy, given to him by Mathew in early 1842), would have re-written the last four lines so as to make the poem macabre.

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15 күн бұрын

@@ssake1_IAL_Research Thank you! How interesting! 😊What real-life circumstances lead you to believe that Mathew Franklin Whittier may have written the poem? Forgive me, for I am unfamiliar with his history.

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15 күн бұрын

@@poetryreadings Mathew lost his beloved wife, Abby, to consumption in late March of 1841. The circumstances described in the opening lines of the poem would have been literal, for him, in December of that year. She had taught him about life after death, and he had kept her books. He used to stay up late studying, and he had insomnia. He was probably reading one of her occult books about spirit contact after death. He had a bust of Pallas, which he later said looked someone like her. She had tutored him on ancient Greece, including the ancient Greek philosophers. He was literally reading one of her books about spirit visitation, at one and the same time hoping for it and fearing it. He heard something t the door, and for a minute, thought it might actually be her--but it was just a bird or a branch in the wind. At the point in the poem that the raven enters the room, it becomes metaphorical and symbolic. "Lenore" is a type, based on a German poem. It was not the name of the lost beloved. The original poem was signed "(blank) Quarles". It stood for "Abby Quarles," and it was a play on words. Abby loved the poet Francis Quarles, who was, like her, a deeply devoted Christian. She could out-debate anyone on religious subjects. So Mathew had nicknamed her "Abby Quarles." That's what the original pseudonym stood for. Poe had nothing to do with it, except to scoop Mathew's poem by three days, pretending it was his. There is much more, but this will give you an idea. I am the first person who has ever delved deep into Mathew's personal history. It took me 15 years, working from primary sources. The point is that this poem was not written in imagination, and it was not a horror poem. It was a grief poem, about an esoteric Christian's faith crisis.

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15 күн бұрын

@@ssake1_IAL_Research Wow! You have done your research. What an intriguing idea. Do other scholars agree with your hypothesis? It would be a shame, if such a thing were true, for Mathew not to get the credit he deserves. Have there been any attempts to further research this idea?