Learning Targets:
1. I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
2. I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
3. I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
4. I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
5. I can analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
Essential Question: How has the American Edgar Poe developed ideas of Romanticism in his poem "The Raven"?
coming up: "Usher" 2 vocabulary quiz tomorrow
In class: power point vocabulary review (class handout)
Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" with focus on Romantic ideas
class handout
Listening to the poem (see link below) / class handout of poem (We will continue with this tomorrow.)
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
“House of Usher” Week 2
Vocabulary
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Notes (words and pictures)
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insufferable
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melancholy
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to grapple
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trifling
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tarn
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dilapidated
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countenance
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vivacious
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cadaverous
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pallid
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gloom
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Considering the
DICTION that Poe’s story contains, what do you think his tone is?
“The Raven”
Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiXjaPqSyY
1) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and
weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber
door—
Only
this and nothing more.”
“Are we scared yet?”
“Bart, he’s establishing mood.”
2) Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak
December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had
sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow
for the lost Lenore—
“Oh Lenore.”
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here for
evermore.
3) And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling
of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt
before;
So that now, to still the beating of my
heart, I stood repeating
“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at
my chamber door—
This
it is and nothing more.”
4) Presently my soul grew stronger;
hesitating then no longer,
“Sir,”
said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so
gently you came rapping, 
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping
at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the
door;—
“This better be good.”
Darkness
there and nothing more.
“You know what would have been scarier than nothing?”
“What?”
“Anything!”
5) Back into the chamber turning, all my
soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
“Surely,” said I, “surely that is
something at my window lattice;
Let me see, then, what
thereat is, and this mystery explore—
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
’Tis
the wind and nothing more!”
6) Open here I flung the shutter, when,
with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of
yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a
minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched
above my chamber door—
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—
Perched,
and sat, and nothing more.
7) Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art
sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly
shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian
shore!”
Quoth
the Raven
“Eat my shorts.”
“Bart, stop it. He
says, ‘Nevermore,’ and that’s all he’ll ever say.”
“Ok, ok.”
8) Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted
floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent
thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy
memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost
Lenore!”
Quoth
the Raven “Nevermore.”
9) “Be that word our sign of parting,
bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian
shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that
lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the
bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off
my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off
my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
“Why, you little…
Come back here you little Raven.”
10) And the Raven, never flitting, still
is sitting, still is sitting
On
the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a
demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the
floor
Shall
be lifted—nevermore!
Comprehending
“The Raven”
1) What is the setting? Use words from the text to describe the
setting using full sentences.
2) Who is Lenore and what has happened to her?
3) Find THREE instances of repetition.
Quoted word or phrase
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Where it is (stanza
number)
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Why do you think this
is repeated? What does it show?
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4) Describe the beat of this poem. Why do you think Poe chose that rhythm?
