Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven

TWPS: In your groups, take a close look at word choice and discuss:

-What is the tone (author's voice)? Give support.

-What is the mood (audience's thoughts and feelings)? Give support.

-How did this trailer create that certain mood? What did this trailer use to create that certain mood?

TWPS: In your groups, take a close look at word choice and discuss...

-What is the tone (author's voice)? Give support.

-What is the mood (audience's thoughts and feelings)? Give support.

-How is this trailer different from the first one? How did this trailer create that certain mood? What did this trailer use to create that certain mood?

It's late at night, and late in the year (after midnight on a December evening, to be precise). A man is sitting in his room, half reading, half falling asleep, and trying to forget his lost love, Lenore. Suddenly, he hears someone (or something) knocking at the door.

The Raven settles in on a statue above the door, and for some reason, our speaker's first instinct is to talk to it. He asks for its name, just like you usually do with strange birds that fly into your house, right? Amazingly enough, though, the Raven answers back, with a single word: "Nevermore."

Understandably surprised, the man asks more questions. The bird's vocabulary turns out to be pretty limited, though; all it says is "Nevermore." Our narrator catches on to this rather slowly and asks more and more questions, which gets more painful and personal. The Raven, though, doesn't change his story, and the poor speaker starts to lose his sanity.

Verse:

You taught me everything

And everything you've given me

I'll always keep it inside

You're the driving force in my life, yeah

There isn't anything

Or anyone that I can be

And it just wouldn't feel right

If I didn't have you by my side

You were there for me to love and care for me

When skies were grey

Whenever I was down

You were always there

To comfort me

And no one else can be

What you have been to me

You'll always be

You will always be the girl

In my life for all times

Chorus:

Mama

Mama you know I love you

(Oh you know I love you)

Mama

Mama you're the queen of my heart

Your love is like

Tears from the stars

Mama I just want you to know

Lovin' you is like food to my soul

Verse:

(yes it is, yes it is,ohhhhh,yes it is,yes it is,yes it is... oohhhh)

You're always there for me

Have always been around for me even when I was bad

You showed me right from my wrong

(Yes you did)

And you took up for me

When everyone was downin' me

You always did understand

You gave me strength to go on

There was so many times

Looking back when I was so afraid

And then you come to me

And saaaayyyyy,

I can face anything

And no one else can do

What you have done for me

You'll always be

You will always be

The girl in my life

(oooo, oohh)

Chorus

Verse:

Never gonna go a day without you

Fills me up just thinking about you

I'll never go a day

Without my mama

Look at your Raven poem, does Edgar Allan Poe use refrains? Give me a couple of examples. *Remember it can be a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or a group of lines.

Essential question: How does language affect the audience?

Rhythm and Rhyme

Personification

What 2 things make certain poetry sound like music?

What is personification?

Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human or lifelike qualities.

Refrains

The Raven Activity

Essential question: How does language affect the audience?

1.) Rhythm: the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables. This provides the poem's beat.

2.) Rhyme: a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems. Two words that sound alike. adds to the music of a poem, like the tinkling of a bell or the clash of cymbals.

Summary: The Raven

Within your group, find three examples of personification in The Raven.

Hint: Stanza 3, 7, and 8.

"Like poets, good speakers appeal to our sense of hearing. One way they do this is by using refrains, which create echoes in listeners' ears. A refrain is a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines. Refrains are used to build rhythm and emphasize important themes or messages."

He calls out, apologizing to the "visitor" he imagines must be outside. Then he opens the door and finds nothing. This freaks him out a little, and he reassures himself that it is just the wind against the window. So he goes and opens the window, and in flies (you guessed it) a raven.

Be Ready to Share!

-Almost every song has a refrain because the structure is typically verse-chorus-verse.

Mother's Day

"A Song For Mama" by Boys II Men

Answers:

Tone vs. Mood

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=251203

1.) Tone: the author's voice. It is the way a writer feels about a place or a character. Tone is revealed through word choice.

2.) Mood: the effect on the audience. The feelings and thoughts of the audience.

Stanza 3, line 1: “..sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain…” *The rustling of the curtains sounds sad as if the curtains themselves share the misery of the narrator.

Stanza 7, line 3: "Not the least obeisance made he." *Obeisance is a curtsy or a movement of the body expressing deep respect, which only a human would know how to do.

Stanza 8, line 2: "By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore..." *Countenance is the expression of the face.

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Hmmm.. then how is refrain different from alliteration?

Alliteration

"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain."

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together. Alliteration create music with words.

Do you hear the rustling of that curtain in all those sounds?

*Remember*

A refrain in a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines. Refrains are used to build rhythm and emphasize important themes or messages

Standards addressed:

Discuss in your groups: How does the language (personification) affect the audience?

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.

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succotash!

Edgar Allan Poe's

The Raven

Can you find alliteration

in the Raven? Give me a couple examples.

Essential question:

How does language affect the audience?

Read along Silently with Poe

Definitions

Exit Ticket:

Create 2 questions.

List on last page of handout.

December 8th

Do Now:

1.) internal rhyme: a poetic device which can be defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhyme with each other. It is also called middle rhyme, since it comes in the middle of lines.

2.) assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem.

In your group, choose 10 of the vocabulary words to define on the Poe's The Raven handout.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

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