Answer:
He's reading to try to distract himself from the grief of losing a "rare and radiant maiden" named Lenore. ... Perhaps the gentle knocking on the door causes him to hope that it's Lenore, and he has to tell himself otherwise in order to quell the likely disappointment that reality will bring him.
Answer:
music can give humans both impacts, either bad or good, either positives or negatives(impact people both positively and negatively), but it depends on individuals how they use it(how the individuals use it) and appreciate it as what they want because music is part of human art and a subjective thing to us.
Explanation:
Her passionate love of art influenced my decision to take an art course.
Influenced- Inspired, impact, to affect.
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