Stanzas 13-15

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, whit my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining that the lamplight gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Serpahim whose footfalls 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.”

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil! –
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted –
On this home by Horror haunted – tell me truly, I implore –
Is there – is there balm in Gilead? – tell me – tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

Stanzas 13-15 - Summary

Pretend you are telling your best friend what was happening in these stanzas.
What would you share with them?
What do they need to know?

Now, write that into a paragraph summary!

Make your writing look as good as your thoughts by spelling correctly, using great grammar, and checking your punctuation. I am very excited to see what you are going to come up with for these summaries.

Stanzas 13-15 - Skill

Today I want you to create your own examples of the poetry elements (5) from our class discussion. Using the graphic organizers made in class, write the term followed by an original sentence that uses the element.

Example:

Rhyme
Cook meat on low heat.

1. Rhyme
2. Repetition
3. Alliteration
4. Imagery
5. personification

Stanza 10-12 - Summary

Write you summary paragraph in complete sentences. Use correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

• Overall idea of the stanzas


• Detail from the beginning


• Detail from the middle


• Detail from the end


• Your thoughts and feelings


• Your prediction

Stanzas 10-12 Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

1. What does the man say to the raven in Stanza 10 (in your own words)?
2. What does the man think about what the bird replies (in your own words)?
3. What is he thinking about in stanza 12?
4. What do you infer he thinks about the bird in stanza 12?
5. What poetic devise does Poe use quite a bit in stanza 12?

Stanzas 10-12

But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing farther then he uttered – not a feather then he fluttered –
Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before –
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.”
Then the bird said “Nevermore.”

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore –
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of ‘Never – nevermore.’”

But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
Straight I whelled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore –
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

Stanza 10-12 - Skill

Alliteration (3)

Repetition (2)

Inference (2) Figuring out what the author is saying by using what you know already. You have to add in information to the text.
Write 2 sentences explaining what you had to infer in these 3 stanzas.

Stanza 8-9 - Summary

Write a 5 point summary for stanzas 8-9. Please write in paragraph form using complete sentences and correct spelling.

Sentence 1: Overall idea
Sentence 2: Detail from the beginning
Sentence 3: Detail from the middle
Sentence 4: Detail from the end
Sentence 5: Your prediction

Stanzas 8-9 - Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Restate the question within your answer.

1. What phrase helps you infer the mood in stanza 8?
2. What does the man ask the bird in stanza 8?
3. What is strange about the answer?
4. What phrase helps you infer the mood in stanza 9?
5. Why is the man "marvelled" in stanza 9?

Stanzas 8-9 - Skill

While reading these stanzas you will be focusing on using context clues to help you with unknown words.

• Context Clues: Using the rest of the sentence and story to help you discover the meaning to an unknown word.

Choose and unknown word from both stanza 8 and 9. Write the following for each word.

1. Write the unknown word

2. Write the sentence in which it appeared.

3. Create your own definition based upon what is happening in the sentence and the story.

4. Write the actual definition from the dictionary or http://www.dictionary.com/

Stanzas 8-9

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, “Nevermore.”

Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door –
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as “Nevermore.”

Stanza 6-7

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."

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.

Stanza 6-7 Summary

Write a summary for these stanzas.

Sentence 1: Overall idea
Sentence 2: Beginning idea
Sentence 3: Middle idea
Sentence 4: Ending idea
Sentence 5: Prediction

Stanza 6-7 Questions

Write the answers to the following questions in complete sentence and restate the question within your answer.

1. What did he hear as he closed the door?
2. What is a lattice?
3. What is the meaning of "this mystery explore" (stanza 6)?
4. What came into the window?
5. What did it do when it came into the room?

Stanza 6-7 Skill

Rhyme (3) examples

Repetition (3) examples

Alliteration (3) examples

Symbolism (2) examples - give the item and what it stands for
*an item that stands for something.

Stanza 4-5 Summary

Write a 5 point summary for these stanzas.

Sentence 1 : overall idea
Sentence 2: beginning detail
Sentence 3: middle detail
Sentence 4: end detail
Sentence 5: prediction

Stanza 4-5 Questions

Write answers to the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What does the man say to the person behind the door in stanza 4?
2. What was in the doorway when he opened it?
3. What was going through his mind when he opened the door at the beginning of stanza 5?
4. What did he hear coming through the dark?
5. What did he say back to the dark?

Stanza 4-5 Skill

Rhyme
1. Find 3 examples of rhyme in these stanzas.

Repetition
2. Find 3 examples of repetition in these stanzas.

Alliteration
3. Find 2 examples of alliteration in these stanzas.

Stanzas 4-5

Presently my soul grew stonger; 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;-
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word "Lenore!"-
Merely this, and nothing more.

Stanza 2-3 - Summary

Write a 5 point paragraph summary on Stanza 1.
Sentence 1: Overall idea
Sentence 2: Detail from the beginning
Sentence 3: Detail from the middle
Sentence 4: Detail from the end
Sentence 5: Your prediction

Stanza 2-3 - Questions

Please answer the following questions after you read Stanza 2-3.
Write in complete sentences and restate the questions in your answer.
1. What is the setting of the story?
2. Why can't the man sleep?
3. Who is Lenore?
4. What does he think about Lenore?
5. What does "filled me with fantastic terror" mean?

Stanza 2-3 - Skill

Rhyme
•Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words
•Example:
–boat – moat - goat
Assignment:
1. Write 2 examples of the rhyming words you find in stanzas 2 and 3.

Repetition
•The repeated use of words or phrases
•Example :
–Teddy bear, Teddy bear turn around
–Teddy bear, Teddy bear touch the ground
Assignment:
2. Write the 2 examples of repetition found in stanza 2 and 3.

Alliteration:
*The repeated sounds at the beginning of a word.
*Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
Assignment:
3. Write 2 examples of alliteration found in stanza 2 and 3.

Stanza 2-3

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-
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
Nameless here for evermore.


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-
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-
This it is, and nothing more.”

Stanza 1 - Summary

Write a 5 point paragraph summary on Stanza 1.

Sentence 1: Overall idea

Sentence 2: Detail from the beginning

Sentence 3: Detail from the middle

Sentence 4: Detail from the end

Sentence 5: Your prediction

Stanza 1 - Questions

Please answer the following questions after you read Stanza 1.

Write in complete sentences and restate the questions in your answer.

1. What time is the story set?

2. What was the man doing before he fell asleep?

3. What woke the man?

4. What is a chamber?

5. Who does he believe is tapping?

Stanza 1 - Skill

Rhyme

•Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words
•Example:
–boat – moat - goat

Assignment:

1. Write the rhyming words you find in stanza one.

Repetition

•The repeated use of words or phrases
•Example :
–Teddy bear, Teddy bear turn around
–Teddy bear, Teddy bear touch the ground

Assignment:

2. Write the 2 examples of repetition found in stanza one.

Stanza 1 - Skill

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.”

Introduction - Skill

Activating Your Prior Knowledge

As a reader you need to think about what you know on that subject before you read.

Before you read, make 3 lists (6 items in each list):

1. Things you know about Edgar Allen Poe

2. Things you know about Ravens

3. Things you know about Heartbreak