![]() In Joan Aiken's novel Arabel's Raven (1972), as well as further books from the Arabel and Mortimer series, a young girl named Arabel has a pet raven named Mortimer who often says the word "Nevermore!" Aiken won an Edgar Award in 1972."Raven-Two", a poetic anagram of the original (1999).Cadaeic Cadenza, a longer work under the same constraint, begins with the full text of "Near a Raven" (1996)." Near a Raven" is a reworking of Poe's poem in which the length of words correspond to the first 740 digits of pi (1995).Mathematician Mike Keith has also referenced the poem in three examples of constrained writing:.Georges Perec's novel A Void (1969), written entirely without the letter 'E' in French and subsequently translated into English by Gilbert Adair under the same constraint, contains a full-length "translation" of "The Raven" entitled "Black Bird." It is attributed to " Arthur Gordon Pym." "The Raven" has been the subject of constrained writing.In the story entitled "The Queen is Dead" the lead character, Georgette, reads the poem aloud to her acquaintances. Sections of "The Raven" are quoted in Hubert Selby Jr's 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn.In the Donald Duck 10-pager "Raven Mad" by Carl Barks, published in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #265 in 1962, Huey, Dewey and Louie play with a raven who can only say "Nevermore." As in the poem, the raven often repeats the word throughout the story.The recurring line is, "Quoth Wes Craven, let's make more!" ![]() Even more recently, the poem was used to parody horror movies, and how successful ones often have sequels made that are of low quality. A more recent parody in Mad by Frank Jacobs, titled "The Reagan", appeared in issue 265 (September 1986). It was titled as "The Spaniel." Rather than "Nevermore," the author was bombarded with famous commercial taglines. Another parody appeared in a Mad collection, We're Still Using That Greasy MAD Stuff (1959). In the magazine Mad issue 9 (March 1954), "The Raven" is reprinted in full with absurd illustrations by Will Elder." "Guv'nor!" Will Elder's absurd illustrations of "The Raven", from Mad Magazine #9, March 1954. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word. In Edmund Clerihew Bentley's Trent's Own Case (1913), Trent, standing at an open French door and reciting the fifth stanza to himself, receives an unexpected reply:.Writer James Russell Lowell, a contemporary of Poe's, references "The Raven" and its author in his poem, A Fable for Critics: "Here comes Poe with his Raven, like Barnaby Rudge, / Three fifths of him genius, two fifths sheer fudge." This mention alludes to the belief that Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty inspired Poe to write "The Raven".As such, modern references to the poem continue to appear in popular culture. Some consider it the best poem ever written. Immediately popular after the poem's publication in 1845, it quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven" has been frequently referenced and parodied in contemporary culture.
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