...Similar to the way the word, "motherfucker", rolls off the tongue and fits written in so many ways to express???, this particular verse from the poem....

"Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore --
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."

did this cat not know how to rap??!
He had the iambic-pentametrical, drug-abuse thing dowwwn in 1845, you think what his stage name would be today??!....

>Read this first as a kiddie, then was reminded from Walken's first screen hit "The Dead Zone", when he quoted it as a tutor to the hockey popsicle kid...

Great drug-addled writin', by any era's standards......

props to poe..
i've got a book of all his works, sitting on my bookcase.

Simpsons spoof/parody: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Simpsons--The-Raven

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