Question

When the raven first taps at the chamber door in “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, it is midnight. What is the speaker’s first reaction to the tapping? He hopes that it is a “rare and radiant maiden.” He thinks it is a visitor. He suspects it is someone who is lost. He believes it is Lenore.

Answer 1

I think it’s the last one but don’t quote me on that. Just trying to help.

Answer 2

He thinks it is a visitor.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this text by Edgar Allan Poe, of extreme poetic beauty and of harsh longing for a lost love, the speaker is pondering memories in a lonely and somber night, when, suddenly, he hears someone knocking at his door. His first reaction is to think that it is a visitor and nothing more. Eventually, we all know, he discovers it is the dreaded raven who comes to haunt him driving him to levels of desperation hardly ever better described.