What does the saying nevermore mean in the poem I did some research online but I can't seem to find a clear answer.
Essentially it is to underline the loneliness of the narrator, usually considered to be a student lamenting a lost love. The bird sits on a bust of the titan Pallas, a warrior who died in his youth at his peak, when it enters the room and only says 'nevermore' to all the questions the student asks, looking for answers about his lost love and his melancholy. The student seizes on the 'fact' that the bird can speak, so assumes it knows the answers to his pain, but the bird only knows one word - 'nevermore' - which rhymes with the name of the lost love, Lenore. The student is mad with grief and so his interactions with the bird are hallucinations - which as Poe well knew did not always make sense of clarify anything. The 'nevermore' is at best a message to the grieving or mad student that his dreams and possibly his best life, like Pallas have ended with Lenore. He does not answer a specific question he's asked by the student, he's just telling him he's fucked - period, nothing will ever matter to him or make him feel love, passion or purpose again.
Despite this Baltimore named its pro football team after this bird. Go figure.