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Why does the speaker react poorly to the raven's response of nevermore

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In these stanzas, the speaker asks the raven if there is an afterlife and if he will be reunited with Lenore there, to which the raven answers “Nevermore”; the speaker takes these answers seriously and thus becomes upset.

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The speaker is unsettled by the raven's repetition of “Nevermore” because he believes the raven learned it from a depressed former master and intends to make him his new owner.

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