This text-based design incorporates two famous poems about birds that were considered evil in one way or another.



On the front is the complete original text of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. In the poem, the narrator believes the bird is evil due to its constant repetition of "nevermore," especially in response to the narrator's question of whether or not he'll ever be reunited with his true love, Lenore.



On the back is an albatross composed of the first verse of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge. In this poem, the albatross is originally a sign of good luck until the captain of the ship decides to kill it with his crossbow. After doing so, the ship is more or less sent to hell, and the captain watches as all of his crewmen die. At the end of the poem we learn that the captain is forced to wander the earth, telling his story to whomever he meets.



This shirt uses poems that are in the public domain, and it's more than willing to be printed in time for Halloween. Click here for a super hi-res version.

LOVE IT. $5

absolutely amazing job!! 5$

nice, but i think the raven is heaps better than the albatross. The albatross looks a tiny bit clumsy in comparison. Just the raven would be sick

Cool!

i can't say lose the text this time.... great idea and art!

I love "The Raven," and I think this is a cool idea. I'd totally buy it for my English-loving self.

the raven one has been done before a couple times.

Raven is rad - but albatross should instead be a seagull, with text from Richard Bach's book. Ahahahaha, the contrast! The deliciously contrapuntal irony!



Or, y'know, it's good how it is.

hahahah macquarian. haha

a shirt like this was on woot!!!!!

Hey, I remember this!



And no, Macquarian. No, it shouldn't.

Hell yeah! I'm in love with both poems!

Whoa! That's a lot of type fitting, lots of work I'm sure but well worth it. Incredible piece, looks great on the shirt $5

Love it! Two of my favorite works :D

$5

i like the raven... the seagull, not so much

I love both! good work!

eeeeeeee!



i'm scoring this just for you, brian-- nice job!

super! $5

2 of my favorite poems I discovered in high school and a well executed idea. 5$ all the way!

Execution could have been much better :S and Papyrus?? eeppp...

Thanks for the comments so far.



And Papyrus isn't actually on the shirt...

2 of my favs as well. I already have a ranven shirt, but it is typed out in straight line. This is way cooler. Me want!!

Very cool! Love it and I would definitely purchase it! This is definitely my style!

Fab. $5

yay, it's up! agreed that the raven looks a bit more finished, I wouldn't be surprised if they chose to print it alone.

This is SOOOOOO awesome! you definitely are the master of text manipulation :)

$5

nice use of poe

the raven is rockin'.

I can't believe that you used papyrus font.

Thumbs down.



The raven is pretty neat though.

hmm cool!

love the ravenn

I love the way it looks, you really made it work well, but...to me, anything involving The Raven has been done ad nauseam and is just repetitive. Everywhere you go you see The Raven. Give the Pit and the Pendulum some love. Or the Fall of the House of Usher. Enough with The Raven:(

I guess that'd ruin the bird theme, though. Going with a strong 4~

think it'd be better with just the seagull front and centered.

It's an albatross, people. Not a seagull :-p



But thanks for all the feedback so far!

with english degree in hand, i give you a 5

I know it's not on the shirt, but the papyrus sent me into cardiac arrest when I landed on this page. Great design.

Wow. I would buy this in a heartbeat!!!

Interesting, I like it!

i love the little yellow beak on the seagull albatross. this would look really good as a poster as well as a shirt.

i meant to strikethrough the "seagull"...comment fail!!!

I love birds





5$

The only thing that doesn't work for me is the papyrus typeface.

thanks for the score, everyone!



and again, there would be no papyrus on the actual shirt. i've now learned my lesson: never use papyrus anywhere ever!

WOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice score!

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great idea... love the use of the words and forum and the colors