(2) it is a cold December night and Poe has his fire place going. He talks about the embers dying and how the shadows or “ghost” is in the floor. He wants to morn or the loss of his Lenore but he cannot bring himself too. He talked about “the rare and radiant Lenore for which the angles have named her.
(3) he hears the tapping again at his door and repeats again “this some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.” Meanwhile he has