“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping…”(p1518) In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, The first two stanzas of this story we are introduce to the narrator, and his beloved maiden Lenore. You find him sitting on a “dreary” and dark evening with a book opened in front of him, although he is nodding off more than reading, while suddenly, he hears knocking on his door, but he only believes it to be a visitor coming to see him, not pondering what it really was. He remembers another night, like this one, where he had sought the comfort
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