When the raven first taps at the chamber door in “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, it is midnight. What is the speaker’s first rea
ction to the tapping? He hopes that it is a “rare and radiant maiden.” He believes it is Lenore. He suspects it is someone who is lost. He thinks it is a visitor.
At first, the first reaction of the speaker is to believe that there is a visitor who comes to knock on his door and decides to ignore him. Then, by continuing to listen to the loudest and loudest blows, he apologizes to “the visitor” saying that he did not want to ignore him, but he did not listen.
After opening the door, he finally realizes it was the raven.
