By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME.

Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe, the author of the poem “The Raven,” was often called a poet of darkness because of his morbid and gloomy themes. The first stanza of the poem describes the journey to an otherworldly realm. The narrator is lost in the woods at night, where he hears strange cries coming from the shadows. He also sees a figure named “Night” who holds a great throne.

The second stanza begins with the narrator realizing that he has reached out-of-this-world lands. It continues with an image of “the wilds of space” and “the ultimate dim Thule” which forms a reference to Antarctica, which can often be seen as “the wilds of space.” The final stanza emphasizes that the narrator has reached this place recently because he has just arrived from a place that lies beyond time and space.

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