I HAVE GOT THIS SUMMARY OF THE POEM " THE RAVEN" AND I DECIDED TO GIVE IT TO MY STUDENTS ALONG WITH A VIDEO NARRATED BY JAMES EARL JONES
BEAUTIFUL AND TOUCHING.
UNTIL THE MOMENT,WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN THE MOVIE AND THE STUDENTS ARE DEVELOPING A RESEARCH ON THE GENRE WITH AN ADAPTATION ON VIDEOTHEY ARE GOING TO PRESENT NEXT MONTH. MAYBE I´LL ASK THEM TO LISTEN TO THE SUMMARY AT A VOICE SITE WHICH READS TEXTS IN A HUMAN-SOUNDING WAY AND SAY IT IN CLASS AFTERWARDS. I´M JUST PREPARING MY CLASSES FOR THE COMING WEEK ....SO, HERE IT GOES:
The Raven Summary
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.
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.
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 get more painful and personal. The Raven, though, doesn't change his
story, and the poor speaker starts to lose his sanity.
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