...The mimes become its food. And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. (1. 30-32) 33 While lumbia University Press (1. 38—40) AA; AnAmPo; AWP; BLPL; DL; LiTA; NOBA; OBD The Raven 34 Once upon a midnight dreary, while...

...turned-from-the-grave or the half-alive, and proclaim an irresistible finality: Out — out are the lights — out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm. . . . Here, as rarely happens in Poe's work, dead means dead. Although lacking a regular forum for...

...food, And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out - out are the lights - out all! And over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral...tragedy, 'Man,' And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. 'O God!' half-shrieked Ligeia, leaping to her feet and extending her arms aloft with a spasmodic movement,...

...a chapter headed by an epigram from Poe's "Ligeia": "out, out the lights — are all!/And over her quivering form / The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm." But Molly's death, Davis reminds us, caused unusual alarm: "Everybody in New York knows that girl"...

...vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out, out are the lights, out all! And, over each quivering form, 35 The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush...unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy "Man," 40 And its hero the Conqueror Worm. 1843 DREAMLAND By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels...

...Condor wings / Invisible Wo[e]" act out a "motley drama" that appalls even the visiting angels, who, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That...the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. The poem is vivid, but not nearly as effective as the tale of "Ligeia." Death triumphs in "The Conqueror...

...its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out— out are the lights— out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That play is the tragedy, "Man,"...

...human life - the body, as in the oldest traditions of dualism, essentially nothing but corruption. "The play is the tragedy, 'Man,'/ And its hero the Conqueror Worm." Here is the confrontation with suffering, "the tragedy, 'Man,'" which haunts Poe, but for which he...

...food, And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out — out are the lights — out all! And over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral...angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm Thai the play is the tragedy, "Man, " And its hero the Conqueror Worm." "O God!" half shrieked Ligeia,...

...century BC). Poe thus opens our eyes, only to close them forever: Out — out are the lights — out all! And, over each quivering form. The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"...