what is the raven about

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It tells the story of a distraught lover who is mourning the death of his beloved Lenore. The poem follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at .