Inspired by Jerome McGann, who in turn was inspired by Emily Dickinson, the audio below is a deliberate effort to deform Poe's original text, in hopes of revealing semiotic, imaginative, and performative elements of his poem.
Extreme frequency boosts of the voice, first stana sample:
Verbs only (sample):
The following audio contains the first 48 lines of the poem. In this sample, only the verbs of the poem are read. They are heard in time with the rest of the poem's words (which are not heard).
Read backwards by word: