Question

"The Raven":Dictionary: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. –"The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe Based on the context of the word rapping in the stanza and the definition of rap, what image is the poem creating?

Answer 1

That someone is slowly and quietly scrapping down the door?

Answer 2

A. The speaker hears a sharp knocking at the door.