The Raven
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- * oh lenore *
- "From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the loss Lenore" This is important because it shows that he is sorrowing over the loss of Lenore. This will affect his mental state as the story goes on.
- Who said that! Lenore!? Is that you!?
- "But the silence was unbroken, and stillness gave no token, and the only word there spoken was the whispered word, Lenore!" The author exposes the mans sorrow in this scene by showing that he hears a whisper and thinks its Lenore even though she is dead.
- "For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door." The significance of this scene is shown by having the raven fly onto his chamber door. The man is startled because he just heard whispers and now a raven stands before him.
- "Nevermore!"
- "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil-prophet still, if bird or devil!"
- "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil-prophet still, if bird or devil!" The author uses this scene to show that the man is very upset and angry because the bird is only saying "Nevermore!" to everything he is saying. The man thinks that the bird can actually talk and is answering all of his questions basically saying no.
- "Nevermore!"
- "Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" The author uses this scene to show that the man considered the raven as a devil and wanted him to leave.
- "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; and his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming," This scene is important because it is shoing how mad and scared the man is and the bird just will not leave.
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