The narrator is a very lonely person who misses a woman named Lenore (Poe, “Raven”). The narrator stood in the darkness thinking about things he had never thought about (Poe, “Raven”). But all he could think about was the woman named Lenore (Poe, "Raven"). He lives alone and is greeted by a bird (Poe, "Raven"). The bird comes and sits on top of his bedroom door (Poe, "Raven"). The narrator opened the window and saw the raven from the past (Poe, “Raven”). The bird did not move a muscle but remained sitting in its home above the door (Poe, “Raven”). All the bird did was sit there and nothing more (Poe, “Raven”). He never makes a sound except the word he says, “Nevermore” (Poe). The man sat at home all day and the bird never left (Poe, "Raven"). The narrator seems sad throughout the poem (Poe). It always gives you the gloomy feeling as if it were dark and empty (Colwell). The narrator has beautiful poetry and many of his poems make the people who read them feel sadness or pity (Eddings). It was December and all the dead wood cast its shadow on the floor (Poe, “Raven”). The narrator continued to long for tomorrow (Poe, “Raven”). He felt pain for a woman who shone like a light and was an unmarried virgin named Lenore (Eddings). The narrator was always in a very lonely mood (Poe, "Raven"). He always wanted someone to talk to about the woman named Lenore (Poe, "Raven"). The narrator never left the house (Poe, “Raven”). He sat there all alone all day thinking about this woman named Lenore (Poe, "Raven"). The bird sat in that doorway every day simply saying the word never again (Poe, “Raven”). The narrator wants the feeling for the poem to make people think of beauty when they look at the... center of paper......romanticism: theory of history, interpretation 31.1 (1998): 23-31. Rpt. in Criticism of Poetry. Ed. Timothy J. Sisler. vol. 54. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 17, 2014.Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Philosophy of Composition." Literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Robert L. Hough. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. 20-32. Rpt. in Criticism of Poetry. Ed. Timothy J. Sisler. vol. 54. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 17, 2014.Poe, Edgar. "The raven." www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edgar_allan_poe/poems/18848. Np, Jan. 30, 2014. Web. Jan. 30, 2014. Smith, Dave. "Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode." Southern Humanities Review 29.1 (Winter 1995): 1-10. Rpt. in nineteenth-century literary criticism. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. vol. 117. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 17. 2014.