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** Creator/FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.

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** Creator/FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, opening ([[FakeoutOpening non-indicative of the rest of the cartoon]]), a raven as the lead character and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.
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* AdultFear: How about never being able to see someone you love - not even in Heaven?

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* AdultFear: How about never being able to see someone you love - again -- not even in Heaven?
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* Irony: 'The Raven' could count as an ironic or sarcastic fairytale. It starts with "Once upon" which is a foolproof aspect of classic fairytales and then goes on to deconstruct the idea that in a fairytale the good guys always win and get the girl. In 'The Raven', not only loses the narrator, our hero, his mind, his beloved wife is dead and lost, too.
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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.

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** FleischerStudios Creator/FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.
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* FeatheredFiend: Played with in regards to the titular raven. While it's clearly not evil (heck, it's not even clear if the bird is ''real''), its presence still haunts and torments the narrator and it spends most of its pagetime reminding him of his loss.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ravens actually can be taught to talk.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ravens actually can be taught to talk.talk, and the normalcy of this is a significant aspect of the poem.
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** ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends U.S Acres]]'' did a variation called "The Rooster".

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* ArcWords: "Quoth the Raven: 'Nevermore.'"

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** ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' did a version of the poem once with Sweetie Pie playing the role of the raven, who genuinely tormented the protagonist instead of just being a representation of his sorrow.
* ArcWords: "Quoth the Raven: 'Nevermore.'"'"
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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.

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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.
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Music/TheAlanParsonsProject based a song on the poem, as did Music/{{Queen}}. Creator/GustaveDore illustrated it too.

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Music/TheAlanParsonsProject based a song on the poem, as did Music/{{Queen}}. Creator/GustaveDore illustrated it too.
too. Another one, purely instrumental, was done by Music/NoxArcana.
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[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MyxsPHWSxlY#! Here]] you can listen to it in the voice of Creator/ChristopherLee. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIckeYVuMC0 here's]] one by JohnDeLancie. There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuehHq5gSxE one]] by Creator/TayZonday.

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[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MyxsPHWSxlY#! Here]] you can listen to it in the voice of Creator/ChristopherLee. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIckeYVuMC0 here's]] one by JohnDeLancie. There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuehHq5gSxE one]] by Creator/TayZonday.
Creator/TayZonday. Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuGZ_wp_i9w another]] by Vincent Price
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* CreepyRavens: Raven the ominous-looking black bird. {{Shout Out}}s to Poe's version abound.

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* CreepyRavens: CreepyCrows: Raven the ominous-looking black bird. {{Shout Out}}s to Poe's version abound.
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[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MyxsPHWSxlY#! Here]] you can listen to it in the voice of Creator/ChristopherLee. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIckeYVuMC0 here's]] one by JohnDeLancie.

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[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MyxsPHWSxlY#! Here]] you can listen to it in the voice of Creator/ChristopherLee. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIckeYVuMC0 here's]] one by JohnDeLancie.
JohnDeLancie. There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuehHq5gSxE one]] by Creator/TayZonday.
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Amusingly parodied in the poem: [[http://www.cloudnet.com/~renfest/end_of_raven.htm ''The End of the Raven'' by Poe's Cat]].

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Amusingly parodied in the poem: [[http://www.cloudnet.com/~renfest/end_of_raven.[[http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/end_of_the_raven.htm ''The End of the Raven'' by Poe's Cat]].
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ravens actually can be taught to talk.
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** One of the narrator's early speculations is that the bird is just a normal raven, randomly mimicking some other individual who'd suffered this trope, and moaned "Never-nevermore" where it could overhear.

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** One of the narrator's early saner speculations is that the bird is just a normal raven, randomly mimicking some other individual who'd suffered this trope, and moaned "Never-nevermore" where it could overhear.
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** One of the narrator's early speculations is that the bird is just a normal raven, randomly mimicking some other individual who'd suffered this trope, and moaned "Never-nevermore" where it could overhear.
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Music/TheAlanParsonsProject based a song on the poem, as did Music/{{Queen}}.

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Music/TheAlanParsonsProject based a song on the poem, as did Music/{{Queen}}.
Music/{{Queen}}. Creator/GustaveDore illustrated it too.
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*** AdaptationExpansion: In the "Treehouse of Horror" version, Homer says the "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" line twice (the second time more frustrated than the first) before out and out [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge trying to remove the raven by force]]. [[ForegoneConclusion His efforts are futile, however.]]
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* DownerEnding: The narrator is driven to desperate madness and the raven remains in his house, still reminding him of what he has lost.


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** Another interpretation is that the narrator's grief is slowly driving him insane, and that the raven was either a hallucination or it was real but the narrator only ''thought'' it was talking when it actually wasn't.
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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly adaptation of the story in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.

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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly adaptation AnimatedAdaptation of the story in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.
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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly adaptation of the story in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]].

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** FleischerStudios made an InNameOnly adaptation of the story in [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1942]]. It has the book in the spooky opening, a raven and a few lines quoted from the story--and the similarities end there.
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Music/TheAlanParsonsProject based a song on the poem.

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Music/TheAlanParsonsProject based a song on the poem.
poem, as did Music/{{Queen}}.

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* CreepyRavens: Raven the ominous-looking black bird. {{Shout Out}}s to Poe's version abound.



* RavensAndCrows: Raven the ominous-looking black bird. {{Shout Out}}s to Poe's version abound.
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** Even when the raven is visible and on the perch, the raven does nothing beyond responding with the word "Nevermore".
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* RhymingWithItself: The end of the fourth and fifth lines in each paragraph use the same word. Said word also rhymes with a different word on line 2, and the arc word on line 6.
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* AdultFear: How about never being able to see someone you love - ever?

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* AdultFear: How about never being able to see someone you love - ever?not even in Heaven?



* NothingIsScarier

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* NothingIsScarierNothingIsScarier: "Darkness there, and nothing more."



* PollyWantsAMicrophone

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* PollyWantsAMicrophonePollyWantsAMicrophone: The Ur Example, in horror terms. The narrator begs of the bird to answer increasingly desperate questions about the afterlife and the hope of reuniting with his Lost Lenore, but the raven constantly answers, "Nevermore," rather pessimistically.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Both possibilities are briefly touched on - whether the bird is/was sent by some unnatural force, or if it was just someone's pet taught to utter a single word (there is a rumor that early drafts of the poem featured a parrot, though this is dubious).
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Creator/RogerCorman's 1963 film version is a ''very'' loose adaptation, mostly PlayedForLaughs, starring Creator/VincentPrice, Creator/PeterLorre and Creator/BorisKarloff, with an early appearance from Creator/JackNicholson.

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Creator/RogerCorman's [[Film/TheRaven1963 1963 film version version]] is a ''very'' loose adaptation, mostly PlayedForLaughs, starring Creator/VincentPrice, Creator/PeterLorre and Creator/BorisKarloff, with an early appearance from Creator/JackNicholson.
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* AdultFear: How about never being able to see someone you love - ever?

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