Romanticism and "The Raven"

       Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of a man's rekindled vivid sorrow in his poem, "The Raven". The man seemed to have lost his loved maiden, Lenore. He says, "Vainly I had tried to borrow/ From my books surcease of sorrow-- sorrow for the lost Lenore --/ For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore --/ Nameless here for evermore" (Poe 1). The man took to books and sleeping for distraction until he heard tapping on his door and window. He found that a raven was the source of the noise and contemplated the significance of the event. By the end of the poem, the man believed that the raven was sent by God or knew of his maiden, Lenore. He's angered and sorrowful because he asked if Lenore was in heaven, to which the raven answered, "Nevermore," and it continued to sit at his window and haunt him.

       Poe showed Romantic thought on nature and the supernatural's relation to each other in this poem. As the man contemplates the significance of the raven at his door in the fifteenth stanza, the air became denser, and he thought that it was due to some supernatural connection that the raven had. At first, he thought God and angels had sent the raven, but he veered later towards being sent by the devil. The man said of the bird, "Prophet!...thing of evil!.../ Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore" (Poe 3). This was a change from good to evil, yet the man doesn't question a relation between the bird and the supernatural. This is much like Romantic thought of nature, which was believed to point to an impersonal God and the supernatural world. The man never fully understood the purpose of the raven's coming to him, which counteracts Enlightenment thought, but he knew that a supernatural, which couldn't be fully known, existed.

Is there more significance to Lenore than just a name used in the poem?