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EN 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nepenthe

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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 some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"Tls some visitor, I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -

6- 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

From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -

12- 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; -

18- This it is, and nothing more?

Why is the narrator lamenting Lenore?

A. Lenore died.

B. Lenore had an accident.

C. Lenore moved away.

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 some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door -

6- 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 From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore

12- 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...

Who does the narrator in "The Raven" say is tapping on his chamber door?

A. a visitor and the wind

B. Lenore and the Raven

C. his mother and his sister

84- Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'

'Prophet' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devill -

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 implorel'

90- Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore.'

- Prophet' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!

By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'

96- Quoth the raven, ' Nevermore.'

'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! I shrieked upstarting -

'Get thee back into the tempest and the Nights Plutonian shore!

In addition to the rhyme at the end of the lines in his poem, "The Raven," Poe uses rhyme within the lines, such as "Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow."

Another example of this "internal rhyme" is