1.Do you think there really was a raven in the speaker's chambers? Explains. What is your explanation for what happened on that "midnight dreary" in the speaker's room?

2.How would you describe the atmosphere created by the setting? Which images in the beginning of the poem create this atmosphere?

3.In line 101, what do you think the speaker might mean when he begs the bird, "The thy beak from out my heart"?

-- Anonymous, May 17, 2000