Magazine article
Preserving feathers fur and human skin: taxidermy is a physical record of a past life or event
Natural history, v 124(8), pp 16-21
01 Sep 2016
Abstract
In Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven," the "ghastly, grim and ancient" bird serves as a rhetorical device that gives voice to the narrator's unspoken hopes and fears. Appearing as the writer is drifting off to sleep, the bird stimulates and torments him with its ominous presence and ambiguous communications. While perched on a bust of Pallas, the uninvited messenger croaks a reply to the protagonist's desperate entreaties about his lost love: "Nevermore," a repeated refrain that turns hope to despair. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Preserving feathers fur and human skin: taxidermy is a physical record of a past life or event
- Creators
- Robert McCracken Peck - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Natural history, v 124(8), pp 16-21
- Publisher
- Natural History Magazine; NEW YORK
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000382183500015
- Other Identifier
- 991019330803904721
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- Biodiversity Conservation
- Ecology