Read the first stanza of the poem "the raven" by edgar allan poe which line from the stanza best supports the idea that the speaker was reading at the beginning fo the poem

The speaker informs the readers that it’s very late at night in the first line. The first stanza also implies that he’s in his “chamber” at home among “many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

sorry if im incorrect i didnt understand what u meeant

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

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