Good morning!
If you missed yesterday, there was a reason there was not a new post. Yesterday was a "re-do" day of Tuesday. You were all given another chance to do your assignment from Tuesday's class over. Since the re-do, most of your comic book cells are looking better!
Today we will go through "The Raven" stanza by stanza. We will discuss how our pictures represent what is happening to the narrator in the poem.
After that, we will return to the questions you answered about the poem. We will talk through those and see how your answers may have changed since initially reading the poem.
1. In the very first line of the poem, which words contribute to a dark, mysterious Gothic mood?
2. For whom is the speaker grieving?
3. What element of Gothic literature does the Raven's speaking introduce into the poem? Explain.
4. How is the speaker's psychological distress increasing?
5. a)With what emotion does the speaker first greet the Raven? b) As the poem progresses, how does the speaker's attitude toward the Raven change? c) In what way is the word nevermore related to the emotional change?
6. a) What does the speaker eventually order the Raven to do? b) At the end of the poem, what does the speaker mean when he says the Raven is "still is sitting" above the door?
7. a)What is the relationship between the Raven's shadow and the speaker's soul at the end of the poem? b) In your opinion, what does the Raven finally come to represent?
THEN, we will watch this sweet video version of "The Raven" thanks Simpsons!
If we get time, we will start on our next story! Yeehaw!
