In the poem the raven by edgar allan poe what does vainly mean

"Vainly had I sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow"

The key to understanding this quote is to know what "vainly" and "surcease" mean. To do something vainly means to do it without success: I vainly searched for my quarter that rolled down the street rain drain. If something undergoes surcease, it stops, it ceases.

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explanation:

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.