Answer: He asks the raven's name.
Step-by-step explanation:
"Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
These are the lines taken from the poem when the narrator asks the raven what his name is.
The poem is about a man who feels miserable because of his wife's death and the fact that he will never see her again. The raven in the poem symbolizes her death and her absence.