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If you’ve ever been visited by a mysterious talking bird at midnight, then this Poe Raven t-shirt is a must have.  Of course, it’s also great for fans of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous narrative poem “The Raven”, which tells the story of a depressed young man who recently lost the love of his life, Lenore.  During the night, the man is visited by a large raven that constantly repeats the word “Nevermore”.  He concludes that the bird is an ominous sign and that his own soul is in fact trapped beneath the raven’s shadow and shall be set free “Nevermore”.  Thus, the man will not be reunited with Lenore in heaven.

I decided to post this funny Edgar Allen Poe The Raven Nevermore t-shirt in anticipation of seeing the John Cusack movie that bears the poem’s name.  In the movie, Cusack portrays Poe for a fictionalized account of the final days of the poet’s life. In real life, much like the loss experienced by the character in his poem, Poe lost his wife to tuberculosis just two years after the poem was published.  Two years later, at the age of forty, Edgar Allen Poe died from unknown causes.  People have speculated that he passed away from alcohol, heart disease, drugs, suicide and tuberculosis, to name a few of the possible culprits.  Perhaps after the passing of his wife, his own soul could find peace “Nevermore”.  The Poe Raven shirt displayed here features the poem’s popular keyword.

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