od Eleshar_Vermillion » 29. 12. 2022, 11:47
Tak jsem se teda podíval do Filosofie básnické skladby a vskutku to s krákáním nemá společného zhola nic: Poe si vymyslel, že báseň zrytmisuje refrénem a líbilo se mu slovo "nevermore". Protože mu však přišlo debilní, aby to opakoval člověk, vymyslel si tam mluvícího ptáka, specificky havrana/krkavce.
E. A. Poe píše:Having made up my mind to a refrain, the division of the poem into stanzas was, of course, a corollary, the refrain forming the close of each stanza. That such a close, to have force, must be sonorous and susceptible of protracted emphasis, admitted no doubt; and these considerations inevitably led me to the long “o” as the most sonorous vowel, in connection with “r” as the most producible consonant.
The sound of the refrain being thus determined, it became necessary to select a word embodying this sound, and at the same time in the fullest possible keeping with that melancholy which I had predetermined as the tone of the poem. In such a search it would have been absolutely impossible to overlook the word “Nevermore.” In fact, it was the very first which presented itself.
The next desideratum was a pretext for the continuous use of the one word “Nevermore.” In observing the difficulty which I at once found in inventing a sufficiently plausible reason for its continuous repetition, I did not fail to perceive that this difficulty arose solely from the pre-assumption that the word was to be so continuously or monotonously spoken by a human being—I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word. Here, then, immediately arose the idea of a non-reasoning creature capable of speech; and, very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven, as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone.
Tak jsem se teda podíval do Filosofie básnické skladby a vskutku to s krákáním nemá společného zhola nic: Poe si vymyslel, že báseň zrytmisuje refrénem a líbilo se mu slovo "nevermore". Protože mu však přišlo debilní, aby to opakoval člověk, vymyslel si tam mluvícího ptáka, specificky havrana/krkavce.
[quote=E. A. Poe]Having made up my mind to a refrain, the division of the poem into stanzas was, of course, a corollary, the refrain forming the close of each stanza. That such a close, to have force, must be sonorous and susceptible of protracted emphasis, admitted no doubt; and these considerations inevitably led me to the long “o” as the most sonorous vowel, in connection with “r” as the most producible consonant.
The sound of the refrain being thus determined, it became necessary to select a word embodying this sound, and at the same time in the fullest possible keeping with that melancholy which I had predetermined as the tone of the poem. [b]In such a search it would have been absolutely impossible to overlook the word “Nevermore.” In fact, it was the very first which presented itself[/b].
The next desideratum was a pretext for the continuous use of the one word “Nevermore.” In observing the difficulty which I at once found in inventing a sufficiently plausible reason for its continuous repetition, I did not fail to perceive that this difficulty arose solely from the pre-assumption that the word was to be so continuously or monotonously spoken by a human being—I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word. [b]Here, then, immediately arose the idea of a non-reasoning creature capable of speech[/b]; and, very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven, as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone.[/quote]