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Lenore

A grieving man sits with the memory of his beloved Lenore, who has died and gone beyond into the afterlife. Lost in sorrow, he questions what remains for the living who must mourn those they have lost.

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The poem turns his loss into a meditation on death, memory and the dark mysteries that surround it, told in lyrical, haunting verse. Its speaker seems unable to let go, and the poem lingers on the weight of separation and the shadows it casts over him.

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