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Lenore The Raven
he Raven is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. In The Raven the speaker is sad because his wife “Lenore” died. While he was trying to forget about the pain from the death of her wife, he heard someone knocking at the door, and when he went and looked who it was, he literally saw nobody. Later on he was heard something knocking on his window, he thought it was the wind but when he open the window a raven appear and then it started to rain. This is how the the poem started.
In “The Raven” the speaker’s conversation with the raven makes the speakers more and more miserable. One example of this “Prophet! Said I, thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—Whether Temper sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,” 85
Another example of him being miserable is: “Be that word our sing of parting, bird or fiend! I shrinked, upstarting—“ 95.
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Well the Raven was answering the question but, not in the way he wanted. He wanted to hear about one thing and that one thing was Lenore. He wanted to hear good stuffs from them person that he loved the most, in this case its Lenore. But he raven kept saying the word “Nevermore” to every question he asked. As we can see the writer uses “if bird or devil” in the first example and then in the second example he uses “bird or fiend!” . Well in the first example the phrase “Bird or Devil” he is asking himself if the raven is a real stupid bird or a devil because he is not answering any of his question. The raven is only saying one word over and, over

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