The Raven
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- I miss Lenore
- knock, knock
- In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, the entirety of the story unfolds within this room. It is set sometime in the middle of the night. Poe is reading the book Forgotten Lore then he hears a knock and decides to go and see who it is.
- Nevermore
- He walks at the door and sees nothing just the darkness. Then he goes back to his chair and continues reading his book.
- Nevermore
- He has nearly fallen asleep when he suddenly hears someone or something knocking on the door. He reassures himself that it’s probably just a visitor. He calls out, apologizing for his delayed but a raven flies from the window perching on a bust of the Greek goddess Pallas Athena above the chamber door.
- The sight of the bird relieves the speaker momentarily. He jokingly asks the bird’s name. To his utter shock, the raven just said, “Nevermore.” He whispers that the bird will fly away soon. The raven responds again, “Nevermore!” Then the speaker theorizes that the bird must have an owner who taught it to say that one hopeless word.
- The narrator then perceives that the air has become “denser, perfumed from an unseen censer,” and says it must indicate the presence of “Seraphim,” or angels, sent from God to help him recover from his grief over losing Lenore. He wonders if he might be able to “quaff this kind nepenthe”. The Raven, however, answers “Nevermore.”
- As the end of the story comes, he realize that he will never get over his lost love Lenore, and that that's why the Raven has appeared. The narrator concludes by saying he continues to live in the bird’s inescapable shadow.
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