Allen Poe 爱伦坡.pptVIP

* Music Appreciation The clock struck midnight And through my sleeping I heard a tapping at my door I looked but nothing lay in the darkness And so I turned inside once more To my amazement There stood a raven Whose shadow hung above my door Then through the silence It spoke that one word That I shall hear forever more Theme Sound emotion Symbolism Other works Content Theme The main theme of the poem is one of undying devotion. The narrator experiences a perverse（unreasonable，harmful） conflict between desire to forget and desire to remember. The poem is made up of 18 stanzas of six lines each. Generally, the meter is trochaic octameter（扬抑格八音步） Poe based the structure of The Raven on the complicated rhyme and rhythm of Elizabeth Barretts poem Lady Geraldines Courtship. What types of techniques has the poet employed in the poem in terms of sound? End rhyme（尾韵） (abcbbb) 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. Internal rhyme（行内韵）: Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, … Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore…(stanza 2) Alliteration: weak and weary rare and radiant grim, ungainly, gaunt flirt, flutter stately, saintly Repetition “ nevermore ” … Tis some visitors entreating entrance at my chamber door Some late visitors entreating entrance at my chamber door…(stanza 3) Assonance 半谐音（两个词或音节的元音类似或辅音类似） dreary, weary; napping, tapping, rapping; morrow,