(Redirected from Rio Hondo, TX) Rio Hondo is a city in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,356 at the 2010 census. It may be included as part of the BrownsvilleâHarlingenâRaymondville and the MatamorosâBrownsville metropolitan areas.
It is one of the most well-known lines English poetry has to offer: âQuoth the raven, âNevermore.ââ It is an eerie verse found in Edgar Allan Poeâs âThe Ravenâ, and we all know what the the first word in it means. Itâs a weird, extremely uncommon verb in the past tense meaning âto sayâ. Now use the same verb to ask if the raven said ânevermore.â Did the ravenâ¦ and now most of you - excluding you language and etymology enthusiasts out there - are struggling because you donât know what the infinitive of quoth is.
âThe Ravenâ is Edgar Allan Poeâs most famous poem, not only because of its immediate and continued popularity but also because Poe wrote âThe Philosophy of Composition,â an essay reconstructing the step-by-step process of how he composed the poem as if it were a precise mathematical problem.here is also the dramatic juxtaposition of the black talking bird perched on the white bust of Pallas over the chamber door, the velvet cushion on which the narrator sits facing the raven, and the lamplight throwing shadows over the narratorâs soul âfloating on the floor,â at the frenzied climax of the poem.