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The raven lonely man tries to ease his sorrow for the lost Lenore, by distracting his mind with old books of forgotten lore. He is interrupted while he is nearly napping, by a tapping on [his] chamber door. As he opens up the door, he finds darkness there and nothing more. Into the darkness he whispers, Lenore, hoping his lost love had come back, but all that could be heard was an echo [that] murmured back the word Lenore! With a burning soul, the man returns to his chamber, and this time he can hear a tapping at the window lattice. As he flung [open] the shutter, in [there] stepped a stately Raven, the bird of ill-omen (Poe, 1850). The raven perched on the bust of Pallas, the goddess of wisdom in Greek mythology, above his chamber door. The man asks the Raven for his name, and surprisingly it answers, and croaks Nevermore. The man knows that the bird does not speak from wisdom, but has been taught by some unhappy master, and that the word nevermore is its only stock and store. The man welcomes the raven, and is afraid that the raven will be gone in the morning, as [his] Hopes have flown before; however, the raven answers, Nevermore. The man smiled, and pulled up a chair, interested in what the raven meant in croaking, 慛evermore.? The chair, where Lenore once sat, brought back painful memories. The man, who knows the irrational nature in the raven抯 speech, still cannot help but ask the raven questions. Since the narrator is aware that the raven only knows one word, he can anticipate the birds responses. Is there balm in Gilead? - Nevermore. Can Lenore be found in paradise? - Nevermore. Take thy form from off my door! - Nevermore. Finally the man concedes, realizing that to continue this dialogue would be pointless. And his soul from out that shadow that the raven throws on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore! Symbols In this poem, one of the most famous American poems ever, Poe uses several symbols to take the poem to a higher level. The most obvious symbol