In “The Raven”, by Edgar Allen Poe, the interaction between the raven and the bust of Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom, substantiates the idea that grief can overshadow wisdom. The narrator is engrossed in a “volume of forgotten lore”, which he is reading to forget and bury deep the memories of his departed love, Lenore, when he hears a knock that seems to be coming from his chamber door. He allows himself the thought that his lovely Lenore is knocking but dismisses the thought as quickly as it arrives. On second glance, the knocking seemed to be coming from his window, and when he opened it, in flew a majestic raven. The raven settled “upon a bust of Pallas”, the Greek goddess of wisdom, whose forename is Athena. She adopted the name Pallas