What kind of person is the Narrator?

The
narrator in Edgar Allen Poes is meant to be an intellectual, given his fine speech, bust of
Pallas over the door (Pallas being Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom), and the fact that the
whole poem takes place in his study or libraryfilled with many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore. The intelligence of the narrator is undercut somewhat by his (implied) spiral
into madness. He seems to be an obsessive person, which Poe underscores with the brilliant,
heavy-repetition rhyme scheme of the poem. He is also very taken in by classical work and
ancient literature especially, given his mentions of Pallas, Gilead and Nights Plutonian
Shore.

First and foremost, however, the narrator in The Raven is a
romantic, and one who has lost his love, . His broken heart is the driving force within the poem
and his state of mind. He also might be somewhat hyperbolic or overly romantic, as he responds
to an empty knocking at his door by wondering, fearing/Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal
ever dared to dream before. It is also fair to say that he is probably wealthy, or at least well
off, and more than a little superstitious.