Question

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Paraphrase the eighth stanza of “The Raven” in your own words. How did paraphrasing it help you better understand the events that the narrator is describing?

Then the ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Answer 1

Then the black bird began to deceive my sadness by making me smile because he wore such a serious face, it is really a smile of almost fear. i said to him , "shocking, serious, and old ravrn wandering around the shore (or his house). Tell me what is pluto doing on the shore tonight? An the racen says to him "Nevermore".