a living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing the bird above his chamber door. Once upon a midnight dreary in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe wrote the Raven, knowing that the creepy superstition about blackbirds (also known as ravens, jackdaws, magpies and crows) were a suitable metaphor for his hero’s loss and despair. The poem tells of a talking… Continue reading quoth the Raven nevermore”