It was a dark and a cold winter's night and the narrator is in his bedroom or chamber. He is grieving his love, Lenore. This man began reading ancient stories to distract himself from thinking about his love. While he was reading, a tap was heard and interrupts. He opens the chamber door to find only darkness. The tapping continues, so he opens the shutter of a window and finds a ebony bird. Both the man and the raven have similarities: the raven is thought to symbolize as a negative omen and darkness, the man was in darkness that's filled with sorrow. Then, the raven flies into the room and lands on top of a bust of Pallas and says, "nevermore" to all his thoughts. The climax of the poem is when the man senses the angels enter the room and
