Question

Read the following lines from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”:
“Once 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 someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’is some visitor,” I muttered, “Tapping at my chamber door—
Only this, and nothing more.”
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
What mood do the italicized words help create?

a. anger
b. anxiousness
c. despair
d. restlessness

Answer 1

b. anxiousness