The tortured speaker is completely loyal to the memory of his beloved Lenore. Since her tragic death, the speaker has eyes for no other woman, despite the immense emotional pain and suffering her memory still brings him.
As he becomes ever more deranged by the raven's insistent cry of "Nevermore," the speaker starts to believe that the bird was sent by God to distract him from brooding over his beloved. If that was the plan, it hasn't worked, because the speaker is as utterly devoted to Lenore at the end of the poem as he was at the start—if anything, even more so.
The speaker never really valued the raven in itself, or even as a strange curiosity or distraction; he simply hoped that this dark symbol of the supernatural would tell him if he'd ever see his beloved Lenore again. If that doesn't show us his loyalty, then nothing does.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
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