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Who is Lenore in “The Raven”?
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Edgar Allan Poe
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem "The Raven", Lenore is the lost love of the poem's narrator, a grieving student.12
The poem centers on the narrator's melancholy and longing for Lenore as he is visited by a raven that repeatedly utters the word "Nevermore". Her name serves as a central element of the poem's structure, as the recurring b rhyme scheme throughout the stanzas is built around the sounds of "Lenore" and "Nevermore".12