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raven

mastery

UK /ˈɹeɪvn̩/ US /ˈɹeɪvən/nounverbnameadj

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What is the primary literal meaning of 'raven' in this poetic context?

Thus like the sad presaging Raven that tolls / The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, / And in the shadow of the silent night / Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.