My comment
is brief, but I want to make it anyway.
"Nevermore" is the central
word of the poem, if we go by 's 1846 essay, "." In this essay he writes about how he
wrote the poem, and it all started -- according to his essay -- with that one word. "The
Philosophy of Composition" is a short essay, well worth reading (see the link below). In
the essay, you'll find a discussion of how Poe decided on using a raven (at first, he was
thinking of a human and then of a parrot) and of how he arranged the questions from the speaker
from the general to the most personal, always receiving the same, one-word
answer.
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