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Interpreting the text Using Close Reading
Learning Targets
• Read closely and annotate the text to explain ideas, make inferences, draw conclusions, and determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Explain how language choices produce different effects on the reader.
• Apply understanding of how narrative poems are structured to comprehending
the text.
Read and Annotate
Read “The Raven” and annotate the text as you read.
■ Use the My Notes area to write questions or ideas you have about the poem.
■ Underline words and phrases that tell about sounds the narrator hears.
■ Put a star next to the name of the narrator’s lost love.
■ Put exclamation marks next to sounds, words, or phrases that repeat in the poem. ■ Circle unknown words and phrases.
From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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 someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door—
5 “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”
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
10 From my books surcease1 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;
ACtIVItY 1.3
My Notes
Narrative Poem
Why is the narrator napping?
1 surcease: an end to
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wrought: fashioned, formed
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