Atmosphere In David Eleonara's The Raven

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How do these words explain the atmosphere of the poem? Well its clearly in the five words. Love, because he's clearly in love and thats the type of relationship between him and someone else (Eleonara). Magic would be another one because he said it in the poem as a magical feeling, and i also agree love can feel magical, so its like a magical feeling. He said faithfully kissing her, but the word faithfully explains the atmosphere because he was faithful to her, he loved her but the worst part of the poem comes to the word depart, not as much as depart from her, but as him departing from happiness, but then the last word is return cause he does regain it towards the

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