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Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe-"The Raven" A lonely man tries to ease his "sorrow for the lost Lenore" by distracting his mind with old books of "forgotten Lore," however he is interrupted while he is "nearly napping" by "tapping on the chamber door" while a raven slowly drives him mad by repeating the same word: nevermore. Poe builds the tension in the poem when he says that "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor," he creates a dark, mysterious mood that prepares the reader for the rest of the poem, as it has gothic characteristics and uses words like "bleak." Later on as the raven lets the narrator know that there is no meaning in searching for a moral in the raven's "nevermore," he says: "And my soul from out that shadow, that lies floating on the floor, shall be lifted - nevermore." The man imagines that the raven...

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