Edgar Allan Poe The Raven PART 2

PART 2 of A reading of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, by Jack Celli at LATV studio in Leominster Massachusetts. Music composed and performed by Mark Marquis. Done for a show on Haloween.Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 -- October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor, and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and invented the detective-fiction genre. He is credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2]

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe, whose parents died when he was young, was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia but was never formally adopted by them. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe and the Allans parted ways. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.[3]

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.

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[csrhodey]

I think he has captured the thoughts and feelings of Poe. I think that if Poe himself read this to us, he would have done it much the same. Over the top...na, just as if it were heard directly from the lips of the terror filled subject of the story. Masterful work.

[shedoom]

yea so um some1 got on my acc and left the last 2 comments so plz disregard them all

[coastielou]

I have recited this poem every day since 1980. I just uploaded my interpritation of The Raven with no music and only a touch of reverb. Please let me know what you think of our effort.

[corpsmancupcake]

I am making the return of the raven

[leominsteraccess]

If everybody did everything the same...what a boring world it would be... Just our interprestation, nothing more nothing less...

[toyokuni3]

sorry, but for me this is a little over the top.plus, he actually blows the line at least once. it's 'what thereat is' not ' what there it is'. his reading blows the rhyme. moreover, 'nepenthe' is pronounced ne-penth-ee (from greek). rhyme shot again. i'm also going to disagree with another earlier comment; i thought the music excellent.

[Poopscraper]

Try memorizing it and playing it with real emotion(and without the background music and voice echo effect)

Poe himself said the Raven stood for "Mournful and never ending remembrance"...what about mourning a lost loved one that you long to see again is hard to play?

Less drama and more honest emotion would suit the piece much better.

[Poopscraper]

Try memorizing it and playing it with real emotion(and without the background music and echo effect)

Poe himself said the Raven stood for "Mournful and never ending remembrance"...what's hard to play about that?

Less dramatics and more true passion would do you well.

[gnikcohs]

It's a great poem to get so carried away on, getting into the 'theatrical' aspects of Poe's writing, especially the poetry, is very interesting, especially this narrative poem.

I mean Mark Marquis no disrespect but the music was REALLY distracting here.

[azar209]

It's scary yet beautiful.