Answer by Matt Thrower for Why Pallas in "The Raven"?
Poe himself offers a brief answer to this in his 1846 essay The Philosophy of Composition. He states:I made the bird alight on the bust of Pallas, also for the effect of contrast between the marble and...
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In Poe's famous poem "The Raven", the eponymous bird, after tapping on the narrator's window, steps smartly inside and perches upon a bust of Pallas.Why Pallas? As far as I know, this figure is not...
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