Question

PLEASE HELP

Part A

What inference can be made about the speaker in "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?


He is a highly educated man.

He is a clergyman.

He murdered Lenore.

He finds comfort in the bird.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?


"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"

"'Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!'”

"But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."

Answer 1

He is a highly educated man.

"'Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!'”

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