Fill in the Blanks Summary of "The Raven"Online version This is a summary of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Fill in the gaps with the given missing words. by Merce Ballabriga 1 discovers darkness shadowy lands fireplace deeply death midnight hold persists It is on a cold evening in December in the 1840s . In a dark and bedroom , wood burns in the as a man laments the of Lenore , a woman he loved . To occupy his mind , he reads a book of ancient stories . But a tapping noise disturbs him . When he opens the door to the bedroom , he sees nothing ? only . When the tapping , he opens the shutter of the window and a raven , which flies into the room and above the door on a bust of Athena ( Pallas in the poem ) , the goddess of wisdom and war in Greek mythology . It says " Nevermore " to all his thoughts and longings . The raven , a symbol of death , tells the man he will never again ( " nevermore " ) see his beloved , never again her ? even in heaven .