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4. What, according to the second stanza, is the speaker trying to accomplish by reading
“forgotten lore”?
5. When he peers into the darkness and sees nothing, who does the speaker initially imagine
may be trying to contact him?
6. What does the narrator mean when, in the eleventh stanza, he says of the raven,
“Doubtless...what it utters is its only stock and store,/Caught from some unhappy master”?
7. Who is the narrator addressing when he cries “Wretch” in the fourteenth stanza?
8. Describe the narrator’s state at the end of the poem.
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