Hello and welcome back to The Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.

I am David Kern.

Well, this is Halloween week, so I'm going to continue reading some Halloween-themed poems,

or at least some creepy-ish poems, shall we say. Today's poem is by Edgar Allen

Poe, the master of the creepy story and the creepy poem. It's a long poem that I'm going to read

today, so I'm going to keep it light on the other content so it's not to make this episode

too long, but this is certainly one of the best poems to read during the week of

Halloween. If there's anybody out there who can find a way to turn this poem into a Halloween

costume, I would love to see a picture of that. So post it on social media and tag it with

daily poem, and we will share a few of those. Don't forget also that if you were a kid who listens to this show,

who is planning to memorize a Robert Lewis-Stevenson poem and enter our competition,

you have till the end of the day on October 31st or the end of the day on Halloween

to record a video of yourself for citing that poem and then post it with the hashtag Daily Poem

or email it to me,id at surcee institute

com and we will pick a couple of winners and we will have some special prizes for those winners so

let's talk about Edgar Allan pose the raven the raven is a narrative poem first published in 1845

and the only thing I'm going to say about it is that I think this is one of those poems that it The Raven is a narrative poem first published in 1845.

And the only thing I'm going to say about it is that I think this is one of those poems that is doubly creepy.

It's creepy on the surface because there's this supernatural element of this raven who comes to this person.

But it's also a person who is in mourning, who is a distraught because this person's lover has died.

So you've got the creepiness of the raven coming and what all that means.

Plus you've got this undercurrent of grief under it,

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