What word does the speaker wish to be the last spoken between him and the bird?

In , the
titular bird flies into the narrators chamber and speaks the word nevermore over and over
again. This is the word that the narrator hopes is last spoken between them. Over the course of
the poem, the narrator grows weary of the Raven's constant refrain of "nevermore," and
he wishes it will be the last word said so that the Raven can finally leave his life. The bird
keeps repeating the word and ending the hope that the narrator feels, which drives him
insane.

The narrator of the poem is a troubled man who is mourning the loss
of his love, . The Raven, who can only speak one word, tells the narrator that he will see
Lenore nevermore.

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if,
within the distant Aidenn,

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels
name Lenore

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name
Lenore.

Quoth the Raven Nevermore.

The Ravens prophecy about heaven drives the narrator further into grief and detaches
him from reality. The repetition of the word nevermore builds the anxiety of the narrator and
starts to break down his psyche. He falls into madness because of the way the bird closes him
off from the possibility of hope, even that he will meet his love in heaven.

At the conclusion of the poem, the narrator asks that the Raven let the last
nevermore be the final word spoken between them, but it doesnt end. The narrator
says,

Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! I
shrieked, upstarting

Get thee back into the tempest and the Nights
Plutonian shore!"

However, the bird does not return
to the Plutonian shores, a reference to the god Pluto who was in charge of the underworld in
Roman mythology. Instead, the Raven continues to sit on the bust of Athena, called Pallas in the
poem, and loom over the narrator's life,

And the Raven,
never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the
pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

Despite
the narrators hope that the Raven will leave and let its last nevermore be the parting words,
he isnt so lucky. The Raven looms like a shadow over his life, continuing to say
nevermore.