" Quoth the Parrot 'Nevermore'", just doesn't have the same eerie vibe to it as Raven does in the iconic 1845 Edgar Allan Poe poem. A year after "The Raven" was published Poe revealed his creative process in an essay stating that a human muttering "nevermore" didn't really work for what he wanted to convey so his next thought was an unreasoning creature capable of speech so his first thought was a parrot though that didn't quite supply the tone he was going for either, then the raven came to mind and he knew that was a good fit with it sporting its shiny black feathers "upon a midnight dreary".
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