Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

Which two pairs of lines in this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe best show that the speaker is still haunted by the memories of Lenore?
But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,

Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Answer 1

But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,

She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"

Answer 2

Answer: But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,

She shall press, ah, nevermore”

Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"

Step-by-step explanation:

“But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,

She shall press, ah, nevermore”

He realizes that Lenore will no longer sit on that chair again. It dawned on him that Lenore shall press no more the velvet violet lining of the cushion she used to sit.

Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"

In these lines he urges to have Nepenthe. Nepenthe was a drink or a potion in mythology that helped one forget.

He seems to imply he needs some potion to help him make the memories of Leonor fade away.