Just like the speaker logically anticipated another human, referring to the visitor, to knock on his door. When humans finally face the inevitability of death, it is difficult for us to grasp onto the thought that there might be nothing in the afterlife so we begin looking for more logical answers. Naturally, he was expecting a person to be there but only finds void. Now we enter the fourth stanza and in this stanza he opens the door only to find “Darkness there and nothing more. Poe wants the readers to know that denying death is natural for humans, even though we are effected by it. “” Although he is being lured into the feeling of dread, he again denies it. Moving on to stanza three, we know he stands and moves towards the door but is still being dismissive and apprehensive by asserting “‘ Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door -Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door -This it is and nothing more. The narrator then begins fondly thinking of a woman named Lenore and we do not know his connection to this lady but the way he remembers her fondly indicates a strong bond. In the second stanza, he begins to use visual imagery and a metaphor to create a depressing aura by declaring “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought ts ghost upon the floor. The tapping is meant to represent the feelings of dread and how humans generally dismiss that feeling as mere sadness, but it is much more. Then it goes on to explain that he begins to hear a tapping at his chamber door but dismisses it, saying “‘Tis some visiter, ‘I muttered, ‘tapping at my chamber door – Only this and nothing more. In the first stanza, we learn of the speakers feelings due to Poe’s use of organic imagery on line one when he states, “”Once pon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,”.

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