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Characteristics of a Poem: Mastery Test
The Raven
by Edgar Allen Poe (adapted excerpt)
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-
Only this, and nothing more.'
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its form upon the floor
Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought to borrow
Select the correct answer.
What does the narrator reveal in the second stanza?
OA
why he decided to write
OB
why Lenore has left
Ос.
why the raven showed up
OD
why he is up late
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