By the time this poem ends, the speaker has gotten really
tired of having the raven around. Throughout much of the poem, the raven's answers to
the speaker's questions have been getting the speaker more and more hysterical. The
speaker has come to see the raven as some messenger from the devil who has come to haunt
him and make his life miserable.
Because of this, the
speaker wants the raven to just get out. This is seen in the next to the last stanza of
the poem. There, the speaker says
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`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's
Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath
spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my
door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my
door!'
So he is telling the
raven to just get out. Of course, all the raven says is "nevermore" and it does not
leave so the speaker does not get what he wants.
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