 | Vivian R. Pollak - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pages
...one need only think of the hypnotic alliteration and rhythms of Poe's extremely popular "The Raven." Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...rapping at my chamber door — "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more."18 Poe's dense use of alliteration,... | |
 | Tak-hung Leo Chan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 304 pages
...which the entire poem rhymes is extremely difficult to imitate in translation. Take these two verses: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...rapping at my chamber door. " 'T'is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." *** But the Raven still beguiling... | |
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - Reading (Elementary) - 2004 - 204 pages
...by naming their football team after him. Here is the first stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven": Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Which of the following contains... | |
 | Bill Sherk - Reference - 2004 - 312 pages
...that bird might remind you of Edgar Alan Poe's poetic masterpiece "The Raven," which begins thusly: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...reigns upright, I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule. [1844-1849] THE RAVEN Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...rapping, rapping at my chamber door — " Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I... | |
 | Bill Sherk - Reference - 2004 - 312 pages
...that bird might remind you of Edgar Alan Poe's poetic masterpiece "The Raven," which begins thusly: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ""Pis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — "Only this and nothing more." Ah,... | |
 | Mark Axelrod - Fiction - 2004 - 200 pages
...the United States by advocating the same economic philosophy, thus confirming Graham's genius. 25. "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak...nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping, of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." The truth is, the tapping at the chamber door... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 248 pages
...alliteration, rhyme, repetition and emphatic metres. In The Raven' he employs an eight-stress trochaic line: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door However, we can see that these very long lines actually have a decided break in the middle: As of some... | |
 | Charles Harrington Elster - College students - 2004 - 452 pages
...pellets drumming against the window and thought of the beginning of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came...some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. The Twain Shall Meet 57 "Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and... | |
 | Editors of the American Heritage Di - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 374 pages
...words-such as quamt-when writing about antiquarian topics, as Edgar Allan Poe did in his famous lines: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." «~|~hree quarks for Muster Mark!/Sure he hasn't got I much of a bark/And sure any he has it's... | |
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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... 
