Today, in celebration of Halloween, we will be reading a section of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven". Check out the vocabulary below to help you as you listen along. Read the full poem here: [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven]
Vocabulary:
stanza - n. a "paragraph" of a poem
dreary - adj. sad, bland, dull
to ponder - v. to think
weary - adj. tired
bleak - adj. cold, miserable
radiant - adj. beautiful, bright
maiden - n. young woman
to rustle - v. to make a sound from the movement of cloth, paper, or leaves
to entreat - v. to ask someone to do something
to implore - v. to beg, to request
scarcely - adv. barely, hardly
to peer - v. to look at with difficulty
mortal - n. a human, someone that can die
token - n. a sign or symbol
merely - adv. only or simply, just
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