Poe's Poetry
What exactly is happening in the following stanza of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe?
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The narrator is giving the background of the story and setting the mood. The narrator is reading, the night is "dreary," and the narrator is awake although tired. He hears someone knocking, but knows only that it is a visitor and thinks nothing much about it.