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Which details in the first few stanzas of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe reveal the setting to the reader?

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Pretty much the narrator is sitting in his chamber at night almost asleep thinking of his list love Lenore...I believe that's true but I'm not sure.
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The speaker informs the readers that it’s very late at night in the first line. The first stanza also implies that he’s in his “chamber” at home among “many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

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