His lost love
The speaker imagines that it is the spirit of his lost love, Lenore, who is at the door in "The Raven." He hopes to be reunited with her in the afterlife.
He heard a gentle knocking, but when he opened the door,
there was no one there.
terror and hope
Only darkness - Novanet ;)
mad cause it wouldnt leave
His lost love
It is Edgar Allan Poe.
The first question the speaker asks the raven in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Suspense :)
John Allan is Edgar Allan Poe's foster father.
He asks if he will ever see his love again
The speaker describes his mood at the beginning of "The Raven" as "weary" and "dreary."
In the excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker is reading and trying to distract himself from his overwhelming grief for his lost love Lenore when he hears the mysterious knocking at the door.
Robert Allan Edgar was born in 1940.
Edgar Allan Brown was born in 1888.
Edgar Allan Brown died in 1975.
Frances Allan was the foster mother of Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, poet, and literary critic. She and her husband, John Allan, provided Poe with financial support and opportunities for education, but their relationship was strained and eventually led to Poe's estrangement from the family.