The word "ebony" in this poem serves to describe the raven
and principally relates to its chief feature: colour. Let us examine the line that you
are referring to:
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into
smiling...
A good thing to do
if you have a question with a number of possible answers is to go through a stage by
stage process of deduction helpfully remembered by the acronym POE: Process Of
Elimination. In this sentence, ball and tall do not make sense as possible definitions
for "ebony." Good would make no sense either given the general evil atmosphere that
surrounds the raven. So that leaves us with bright or none of these. A quick web search
will reveal that " href="http://www.tfd.com/ebony">ebony" actually means a dark, glossy black,
indicating that none of these is the correct answer.
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