nce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more." In this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the speaker doing when he hears a knock at the door? pacing reading weeping sleeping

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Derick Watkins

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20 April, 07:10

nce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more." In this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, what is the speaker doing when he hears a knock at the door? pacing reading weeping sleeping

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Raymond Fuller · Answer 1

He was nodding out not quite sleeping yet

Shawn Chang · Answer 2

Answer: reading

Explanation: In this excerpt from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker is reading when he hears a knock at the door. The narrator is reading on a bleak December night to forget that his beloved Lenore is dead. Is at midnight, and he is about to fall asleep when a sudden noise fills him with fear. He tries to convince himself that it is some visitor and nothing more.