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Annotated In Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

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In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven,” the beginning stanza starts with the narrator reading through a “forgotten lore” that he hadn't read in a while. He was about to fall asleep while reading in his chair, as stated in the text, given that it was a "midnight dreary," and he was "weak and weary," ready to sleep. Then "there came a tapping," which implies that someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night. Furthermore, the symbolic meaning of "weak" that Poe utilizes in the text to express how the narrator feels may also indicate that the narrator is unwell, fatigued, or drained, implying that something miserable happened before the poem began. The stanza creates a suspenseful mood. It hinted and foreshadowed that the upcoming events would
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