The Night's Plutonian Shore

[justcarol67]

Steve:
> Again, "Night's" is possessive, am I safe in assuming that?

Carol:
Yes on that one.
> 
> Could we substitute 'Dark' or 'Darkness' for 'Night'?

Carol:
Yes and no. Night has been personified as almost a being, whereas I don't think darkness has. Night is more than darkness; it's the absence of the sun and the time of sleep--or sleepless terror if you're a Poe character--and nightmares or real terrors that strike in the dark of night. 

Steve: 
> <snip> Has the author simple personified Darkenss and Night? And, since he is treating concept of 'night' and 'darkness' as a named person, does that explain the capitalization?

Carol:
As I said, a capital letter usually signifies personification in poetry, but I don't see how it could be personification here since beings don't have shores, figurative or literal. It's almost as if Night is some hellish realm for our not exactly sane narrator, who wants the raven to go back to that place/state and leave him, literally, alone. 

Steve.
> Is it, get the back into the Plutonian shore belonging to Night? Or get thee back into the domain belonging to Darkness or Night? 

Carol:
The Plutonian (hellish) shore belongs to Night. Think of Night as a *place* or state of being.

Steve: 
> One last very unlikely point; could this be a reference to another piece of literature? Could there be an author named Night, who wrote something about the Plutonian shore? <snip>

Carol:
Definitely not. You're making it harder than it needs to be. Basically, he's telling the raven to go back to the hellish darkness that it came from, but Night is capitalized because it has reality and substance for him as an abstraction in a way that "shore" (which is not scary or associated with darkness and nightmares) does not.

Think of Voldemort's fear of darkness and its association in his mind with death. Add to that an association with terror and madness and you have this (mad) narrator's view of Night.

Carol, just giving her own interpretation