Poetry Appreciation – "The Raven"

Introduce your class to "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe with this series of activities, exercises, and worksheets. Class members examine an image, analyze a movie trailer, read a prose version of the poem, look up vocabulary, and pick out details from the prose passage before diving into the poem. The first five stanzas are broken up into smaller chunks for reading and analysis. Learners answer questions about each chunk, focusing on rhyme, meaning, personification, and the narrator. Wrap up with one or more of the modern culture options described at the end.