I read once that Claude DeBussy was a big fan of Poe’s writing, the Raven in particular, and said he had tried to capture the beauty of The Raven in his Clair de Lune. The Raven can be given the sing-song reading of an elementary student, or the studied performance of a great actor, and in the latter, the listener who is lucky enough to hear it performed as it was meant to be, is transfixed as the subject is transformed from a person desperately trying to hold on to a delicate normalcy down the slippery slope to the torment of full-blown insanity.“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door. And his eyes have all the seeming, of a demon’s that is dreaming, and the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor.And my soul, from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shall be lifted – nevermore.”
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 6 years ago
What winderful Poetry.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 6 years ago
I read once that Claude DeBussy was a big fan of Poe’s writing, the Raven in particular, and said he had tried to capture the beauty of The Raven in his Clair de Lune. The Raven can be given the sing-song reading of an elementary student, or the studied performance of a great actor, and in the latter, the listener who is lucky enough to hear it performed as it was meant to be, is transfixed as the subject is transformed from a person desperately trying to hold on to a delicate normalcy down the slippery slope to the torment of full-blown insanity.“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door. And his eyes have all the seeming, of a demon’s that is dreaming, and the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor.And my soul, from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shall be lifted – nevermore.”