What is the raven about

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My project is due In 2 days and i don't know what the raven is about. could you please give me a summary on it.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2002

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Read the poem. The speaker is the main character. A tapping interrupts his readings and memories of his lost Lenore. His inner sanctum breached and his fancy possessed he engages in a dialogue, at first teasing then frantic with fear. His descent into despair is hiw own doing after each predictable repetition of "Nevermore." He has lost hope, control, is overshadowed by the presence of loss "a mournful and neverending remebrance".

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2002

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