"And each separate
dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
Thisis
the same idea as the"giving up the ghost." The death of the embers is like a person
dying and the spirit, or ghost, remaining. In this poem by Poe, the narrator is at home in a
cozy room with a fire. He is dozing and realizes the fire is dying down and the sparks, or
embers, are going out on the floor. This metaphor is giving the reader a sense of the setting
for the poem. To set the mood, Poe uses mysterious and depressing words in these descriptions:
bleak, dying, and ghost. We can imagine the cold December night and the narrator sitting
by a warm fire, lightly sleeping. The narrator goes on to tell us he has been reading and
wishing for daylight. He is trying to find peace from his memories of :
]]>"Eagerly I wished the morrow;vainly I had sought to
borrow
From my books surcease of sorrowsorrow for the lost Lenore"
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