Question

In the raven by Edgar Allan Poe the speaker grows curious and asks the raven an initial question. What is the first question the speaker asks the raven

Answer 1

Tough the crest by shorn and shaven

Answer 2

The first question the speaker asks the raven is what is his name. Here is the direct line from the poem:
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
The poem is about a sad and miserable narrator who has just lost the love of his life and he is mourning her, and realizing that he will never see her again. The Raven is a symbol of her death, and his inability to be with her once more.