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15 unusual facts about The Raven


Balm of Gilead

The speaker in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" (1845) professes a belief that the "balm in Gilead" can heal his broken heart, because he laments the death of his love (Lenore).

Dawnthief

The Raven are band of mercenaries, from the continent of Balaia, who are famous, with a reputation for being the best at what they do.

Deer Park Tavern

The Deer Park logo is based on Poe's classic poem "The Raven".

Disaster Averted

In the next shot, Marshall is shown standing near a carving of a raven and waxing poetically about his isolation.

Dynamic debugging technique

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was "HACTRN" ("hack-tran"); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," The HACTRN.

Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight

It is peppered with numerous quotes from many of Poe's works, and also includes a complete recitation of Poe's poem "The Raven".

Evil Calls: The Raven

Evil Calls is the first in a pair or trilogy of Raven films, inspired by "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

H. L. Fischer

He worked as a teacher and lawyer, and in later years during a siege of illness, wrote a lot of Pennsylvania German language poetry, including the translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", which was published in pamphlet form at his Mapleshade home at York, 1891-07-07.

James William Carling

When in America, James supported himself as a sidewalk artist and Vaudeville caricaturist before devoting his talents to illustrating the poem "The Raven".

Lenore Ulric

He reportedly named his daughter Lenore due to his fondness for the Edgar Allan Poe poem, "The Raven".

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

This image recalls Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", but is also a symbol of the lover's vulnerability in spite of her strength.

The song uses surreal imagery, some of which recalls Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and the biblical Book of Daniel.

Rapid Heart Pictures

In 2007, DeCoteau and Rapid Heart worked on an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

Trough Creek State Park

Edgar Allan Poe is rumored to have visited the area and found inspiration in the ravens that lived on the cliffs along Great Trough Creek just prior to writing his poem "The Raven".

Umbracle

Unlike Cuadecuc, Umbracle features several scenes of synchronized sound, including a notable scene where Christopher Lee recites Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and sings opera in an empty theatre, and a lengthy sequence of Spanish filmmakers discussing censorship in their country very frankly, their statements later reinforced by a nearly 15-minute segment from a pro-Franco film.


Cadaeic Cadenza

The first part of Cadaeic Cadenza is slightly changed from an earlier version, "Near a Raven", which was a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature (The Raven, Jabberwocky, the lyrics of Yes, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rubaiyat, Hamlet, and Carl Sandburg's Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme.

Freedom Press

Having had a close affinity with Colin Ward and Vernon Richards it has produced much of their extensive back catalogue, in addition to titles by Clifford Harper, Nicolas Walter, Murray Bookchin, Gaston Leval, William Blake, Errico Malatesta, Harold Barclay and many others, including 118 issues of the journals Anarchy, edited by Colin Ward and 43 issues of The Raven.

Irene Ware

Irene appeared in 29 films between 1932-1940, and is mostly remembered for her roles as Princess Nadji in Chandu the Magician (1932) with Edmund Lowe and Bela Lugosi, and as Boris Karloff's and Lugosi's leading lady in 1935's The Raven.

Nikolay Glazkov

He was also noted for his lighthearted jokey verse, such as a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" where the narrator, after being made quite gloomy by the raven's predictions of woe decides to test him by asking whether he knows any cities in Chile.

Serbia Film Commission

In the past three years, Serbia has served as a location for a number of productions, most recently The Raven directed by James McTeigue, EuropaCorp's Lock Out with Guy Pierce and Maggie Grace, and Ralph Fiennes’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.

Shadow of the Raven

This time the composers Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski honor Edgar Allan Poe, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other tales of suspense and horror, as well as the famous poem "The Raven".