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"Once upon a midnight dreary" establishes what mood in the beginning of "The Raven"?


dark and depressing


light and joyful


undetermined


humorous and ironic

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dark and depressing

"Midnight dreary" and words like "dreary," "bleak December," and "weary" immediately set a gloomy, melancholic mood at the poem's start.