Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is a fabulous poem that is looked at by numerous students each year. This poem is a dark poem that has a sad tone to it. A man is "nearly napping"(l. 3) in his chamber when he hears a knock on his door. Instantly he believes it possibly could be his dead wife, which somehow came back from the dead. However, when he opens the door he only sees is "Darkness" (l. 24). Then "a tapping" (l. 32) at his window draws him over to it. When he opens the window "a stately raven"(l. 38) enters his chamber. Soon, the man and the Raven get into a conversation. Although the man knows what the Raven will respond to each of his questions, he continues asking to satisfy his need to know why he is there. As the man grows more intrigued by the bird he seems to grow crazy. He is wondering throughout the poem where his deceased wife is, whether she went to heaven or hell. At the end of the poem, the raven stays in the chamber forevermore to continue to haunt the man for eternity. A simple bird can make a man go crazy by no more than repeating one word.
             In the first stanza, the man is nearly asleep, when a noise that he thinks is a knock at his door awakens him. The first thing he thinks of is that his wife has come back to be with him again. He believes this even though she has been dead for a rather long time. This eludes early on that the man in the poem may be slightly crazy. In addition, "the bleak December"(l. 7) shows that he is dreary man that thinks of the dead often. At this point in his life, it is a difficult time for him because he "wished the morrow"(l. 9), and he does not want to live the way he presently does. In the third stanza, he frightens himself by thinking to of what could linger behind his chamber door. He tries to calm himself by repeating "Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door"(l
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