One of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works is called the "The Raven". It was written during the time his wife/second cousin was dying. It's a poem about a man who was mourning for his lost wife. When suddenly he heard someone tapping at his door. When he opened his door, there was no one there. When he sat back down, he heard the tapping again except louder at his window. He opened his window …showed first 75 words of 192 total…

…showed last 75 words of 192 total…it, "tell me what thy lordly mane is on the night's Plutonian shore". But all the Raven says was "Nevermore". The main character just kept talking to the Raven and thinking how rare it was for a bird to perch on top of a door and only say "Nevermore". The main character started to get pissed off and yelled at the Raven and the Raven just sat there, really still, and repeated the word "Nevermore".