Who sent you, God or the Devil? Is there balm in Gilead? Can you confirm that Lenore is in Heaven?
"Leave my loneliness unbroken! -- quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
NEVERMORE
The setting is introduced in the narrator's bedroom. He is awoken from his slumber by a loud tapping. The narrator is depressed because of the loss of his wife Lenore.
The Raven flies in and sits himself onto the statue of Pallas. The narrator asks the Raven three questions.
The narrator demands the Raven to leave. The Raven says "nevermore" and remains upon the statue of Pallas.