Poe's Poetry
What are two ways that the birds got represented as monsters in "The Raven"?
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Nigh
Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore-
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!–prophet still, if bird or devil!-
The Raven