Lenore
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If you are looking for the character invented by Roman Dirge, see Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl.
"Lenore" is a poem written in 1843 by the american author Edgar Allan Poe. It was written four years before the death of his young wife, Virginia Poe, and may have been influenced by her declining health (she had ruptured an artery in 1842, from tuberculosis). It discusses proper decorum in the wake of the death of a young woman, and concludes with "No dirge shall I upraise,/ But waft the angel on her flight with a pćan of old days!" meaning that the narrator finds it inappropriate to "mourn" the dead, but rather to celebrate their ascension to a new world. A character by the name of Lenore is also central in Poe's poem The Raven.