The speaker is thinking about the bleak month of December in lines 7-12.
Explanation:
"The Raven" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem is a lamentation of a student who lost his lover, Leonore.
In lines 7-12, the speaker is thinking about the bleak month of December in which his lover, Leonore, passed away. In these lines, the speaker is trying to escape the sorrow of his lover by reading, but he is not able to. Even the dying ember haunted him with the memory of his beloved.
So, the correct answer is he is thinking about the bleak month of December.
