Over one hundred and seventy years ago, on this precise day Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" was published. For a storyteller/writer/observer like myself, the poem holds an obvious fascination – it is a narrative poem that tells a tale of a young man visited in the middle of the night by a raven. This young man, who is pining for his lost love – Lenore – seems to teeter on the edge of distress and dismay, and slowly lean towards mental abandonment. The scene is dark, drear

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