Grant's permenant rank was first lieutenant, but he received brevets for both first lieutenant and captain at Molino del Rey and Chapultepec. During the Mexican-American War and his service in it, Grant started to formulate his own beliefs and judgments about warfare.
The first gentle rapping at the narrator's door occurred at the beginning of the poem.ran can you rap? Can you rap? â¦ Can you, Gran? And she opened one eye and said to me, man, I'm the best rapping Gran this world's ever seen I'm a tip-top, slip-slap, rap-rap queen. And she rose from her chair in the corner of the room And she started to rap with a bim-bam-boom.
Initially, when he hears the noise, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door (Stanza 1), he is startled, but he calms himself by repeating the most logical explanation for the noise to himself. Surely, 'tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door (Stanza 3). Ask a question.osted on. (Answer #1). The speaker expects to find a visitor there. He had been reading to take his mind off his sorrow at losing his love Lenore, and had fallen asleep.