The main theme of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” (1845) is the melancholy evocation of lost love. The poem tells of a grieving student, his lost love named Lenore, and a raven that suddenly appears in the student’s chamber and utters the refrain “Nevermore.” As the student laments Lenore, the raven’s insistent repetition of the word becomes an increasingly harrowing response to the student’s own fears and longing.
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