Question

"The Raven." Which best describes the scene that the author is setting through the use of imagery in the stanza? The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound. The speaker is sleeping and is awakened by someone calling to him.The speaker is reading a ghost story and imagines that he sees a ghost. The speaker is napping and does not hear a visitor who taps on the door.

Answer 1

The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound. 

Answer 2

The speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Raven is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe. In its opening lines, the first stanza, it speaks of a character in the first person who is reading some obscure and forgotten texts and who suddenly hears a tapping on his door. The speaker thinks it should be a visitor and nothing more. Later, we learn that a raven was at his door and that this creature came to haunt him and revive the speaker´s memories of a lost love that will not let him be at peace anymore.