The Raven
/ðə ˈreɪvn/
/ðə ˈreɪvn/
- the best-known poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1845. In it a man is visited by a raven (= a large black bird) and asks it when he will see his lost lover again. The bird repeatedly answers 'Nevermore'.
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