Tonight's Homework: HW: Reread The Raven- Answer question #1 and #4 from Responding to the Poem on your handout. Raven part 1 February 26, 2014

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1 Eng. 11/ Wagner Feb Unit 3: Self Discovery Agenda: Focus Activity Lit. devices chart Raven Vocab and poem Stanza 1&2 Discussion Tonight's Homework: HW: Reread The Raven- Answer question #1 and #4 from Responding to the Poem on your handout. Please prepare for class by Turning in your Rappaccini's Daughter Lit. Devices chart into the basket if you didn't last class. Taking out your TPCASTT for the 2 Emily Dickinson poems we have done. Focus Activity: Think and Ink: Write about the Emily Dickinson poem we read last class. Write non-stop about the poem or any ideas generated from the poem. Possibly consider these questions: How long would you be willing to wait for a lover? Do you agree with Dickinson in that it is better to know than not to know, even if if the "goblin bee's" sting might hurt? Write for 5 minutes non-stop Learning Targets: learn new vocabulary Identify effect of figurative language on the meaning of a text. Read The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. Identify lit. devices in the first two stanzas and explain their impact on the tone of the poem. 2/26-27

2 Literary Device De+inition Example from Text (Use quotation marks) Literal Explanation Impact on Text imagery Descriptions that appeal to the senses and create a picture or sensation We paused before a house that seemeda swelling of the ground;the roof was scarcely visible,the cornice but a mound. Death and poet pass by a house that has crumbled and you can only see the top of the house coming out of the ground It visually looks like a gravestone or at the very least suggests that many years have passed, centuries, which further highlights the death of the speaker and shows that death is a long time/ eternity. There's no going back. metaphor symbolism lit. devices chart

3 Vocabulary for The Raven lore: Short for folklore- a tale/story 2 to wrought: to mold or shape 7 83 surcease: an end 10 to quaff: to drink heartily implore: to beg urgently 20 undaunted: fearless 87 obeisance: (to obey) an act of courtesy, respect 39 mien: a person's manner or being to beguile: to deceive or mislead 43 gaunt: thin censer: a container for incense 79 Vocab

4 Raven part 1 February 26, 2014 The Raven Essential Question How does Poe establish the tone and mood in the poem? Oct 27-3:22 PM

5 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TONE AND MOOD Tone simply refers to how the author feels towards the subject, or towards something. You will know what the author s tone is implying by the words he uses. While mood, refers to the feeling of the atmosphere the author is describing. It is what the author makes you feel when you read his writings. You can read a sentence, and feel sad, happy or angry. Define and identify tone and mood Oct 27-3:00 PM

6 Listen to and follow along. Note tone/mood. Note if tone or mood changes as you listen. Oct 27-3:25 PM

7 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.' Define and identify tone and mood in the poem "The Raven" and highlight words that show how Poe achieves these. 1

8 midnight- the witching hour! Dreary- Immediately sets the mood. 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.' Define and identify tone and mood in the poem "The Raven" and highlight words that show how Poe achieves these. 1

9 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 named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. Define and identify tone and mood in the poem "The Raven" and highlight words that show how Poe achieves these. 2

10 Tone: Mood: sorrowful curious sad/ gloomy/ mysterious/ creepy personification 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 named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. metaphor- you can't literary borrow the end of pain from your books. surreal- wow what imagery! surreal effect again notice how Poe places Lenore on a par with the angels. The contrast between the bright and radiant Lenore vs. the darkness of his room. Define and identify tone and mood in the poem "The Raven" and highlight words that show how Poe achieves these. 2

11 EXIT: 1.What is the tone of the poem at the beginning? Does it change? What to? 2.What is the mood? Give one piece of textual evidence for your answers. HW: Reread The Raven- Answer question #1 and #4 from Responding to the Poem on your handout. exit