Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven" - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

narrator of this poem is alone, almost falling asleep at night in a big, drafty house when he hears an unexpected knock at his door. His imagination gets the best of him because he was just dreaming of his love, Lenore, who has died

Question 2

in “the raven” the narrator supposes the Raven had been taught the word “Nevermore” by

Answer 2

an unhappy master caught in some unmerciful disaster

Question 3

the narrator in the raven calls the raven

Answer 3

prophet

Question 4

the narrator in “the raven” expresses his hopes for a future with his lost Lenore in the lines

Answer 4

93-94

Question 5

the narrator in “the raven” tells himself that the tapping he heard was

Answer 5

• a “visitor entreating entrance”

- “the wind and nothing more”

Question 6

in lines 58-59 of “the raven,” the other friends Poe is referring to who have flown before probably include
Till I scarcely more than muttered ‘other friends have flown before - on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before’

Answer 6

his mother, step mother, and aunt, who died of tuberculosis