Answer:
Edgar Allen Poe creates quite a bit of suspense in "The Raven." The setting is established as a "midnight dreary" and "bleak December" where our narrator cannot seem to rest peacefully. He begins to hear noises and voices "rapping at my chamber door." He proceeds to open the door to find no one there, yet he still hears voices that speak the name of his lost love, Lenore. Now, by this point, we realize that the narrator is very upset about Lenore noting being present for the narrator declares, "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—Nameless here for evermore." While we do not know the circumstances of this lost love being gone, the narrator is up late at night, thinking about Lenore when he begins to hear the name whispered. The curtains are moving and the narrator peers out into the darkness, wondering and fearing, attempting "to still the beating of my heart." Readers too wonder what might happen next. Is someone or something there?