College Prep Poetry #6
Narrative Poem
“The Raven” – pg. 940
 Complete questions 1-6
1. I feel like the poems speaker is a curious person, but ends up going a little insane by the
end of it. I think this because at first he is just curious about what the raven is doing at his
house, and once the raven starts telling him about how his wife died he becomes hurt,
angry, and mad.
2. A. Lenore is the speaker’s wife and she has died. B. The speaker’s relationship with
Lenore is close because whenever the raven starts to mention that she is dead, his
demeanor changes completely.
3. A. Two adjectives the speaker uses to describe his mood are quaint and curious at the
beginning of the poem. B. Two adjectives I would use to describe the speakers mood at
the end of the poem is woeful and pallid. C. The things that cause his mood to change are
the raven because he keeps telling him that his wife is dead, and it keeps repeating
“Nevermore.”
4. A. The one word that the raven speaks is “Nevermore.” B. I think it is answering to the
narrators questions because how else would the speaker know that was what the raven
was saying.
5. A. At the beginning the raven just seems like a nice quiet bird that perches above the
door, but by the end it is like this demonic bird. B. The things that cause my impression
to change is the tone of the poem as it progresses, and also how the narrator describes the
bird throughout it.
6. I don’t think that it would have been as effective because parrots are these nice, colorful,
repeating birds. It wouldn’t of been as scary or get the point across of the poem.
 List at least 3 poetic devices found in the poem (Name the literary device and list the
example from the poem.) EX: Simile – “And the river flows like a stream of glass” - Line 4
(from “Sympathy”)
 Rate the poem on the following scale accompanied by a 1-3 sentence specific explanation for
the rating.
 The rhyme scheme of the poem in the first stanza is a,b,c,b,b,b.
 Personification in line 13 “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.
 Alliteration in line 27 “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”
 The poem was okay, I didn’t like it that much because I thought it was confusing to follow
along with on the video because the man changed the words around. Also I didn’t like it
because I thought it was too long, and I didn’t like that the raven kept on repeating
“Nevermore”
Approval Rating Scale:
Liked it!
It was ok.
UGH! Did not like it!
Label this page: Raven
Home Work Activity: Paraphrase the poem “The Raven” stanza by stanza.
OR
Find a song that illustrates the theme, mood, and situation of “The Raven.” Explain the
connections you see between the song and the poem, and include a copy of the lyrics.
OR
Find a piece of art work that illustrates the theme, mood, or situation of “The Raven.” Explain
the connections you see between the art work and the poem, and include a copy of the art work
or at least the title of the work and the artist’s name
The connections I see between the poem and the artwork is that, in both “The Raven” and the art, they
both have a raven and a man in it. The other connection I see is that the man looks afraid or mad at the
raven like he becomes to be in the poem.