Hello and welcome to today's lesson.

It's the fifth in your Gothic poetry unit.

My name is Ms. Watson, and I'm really looking forward to today's lesson.

We are going to be looking at "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace", and we're going to be comparing them.

So by the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to compare two poems and give a personal comparative response to both those poems. We'll start as we always do with the keywords.

They are bereaved, isolated, nostalgic, Gothic, and symbol.

And here the keywords are coming up for you to look at.

As we go through the lesson I would like you to use these words as much as possible when you are talking about the two poems. So today's lesson, comparing "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace".

We're gonna start by comparing the meaning of the poems, the story of the poems, what they're about, and the two personas of the poems. Then we're gonna compare the use of literary techniques, the different literary techniques that poem uses when writing those two poems. And then we're gonna end by giving a personal comparative response to the two poems. So what do we do when we compare poems? Well, we might look at who is speaking? The speaker's persona.

What they are talking about? The topic or the plot of the poem.

And the mood of the poems, the feelings and emotions In the poems, Two students summarised "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace".

Jacob said that "The Raven is about a man in mourning for the death of his wife, Lenore.

A raven flies in and sits down, and the man begs the raven to tell him about Lenore, that all the raven says is, 'Nevermore'".

And Izzy summarises "The Haunted Palace".

He says, "It's a poem in which a speaker describes a beautiful palace, which is now in ruins.

Music plays throughout the palace.

And at the end of the poem, the palace is overtaken by evil things." What I'd like you to do now is to pause the video and add some extra points about "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace".

You can pause the video while you do that.

Let's have a quick check for understanding.

I'm gonna put up some statements about "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace", and I want you to use the letters R for "The Raven", P for "The Haunted Palace", and B, for both to identify similarities between the two poems. Here are the statements.

The speaker is a bereaved and grieving man.

Is that about both poems or is it about "The Raven", or is it about "The Haunted Palace"? That's right, it's about "The Raven".

Second statement, the speaker seems isolated and ultimately insane.

About both poems, "The Raven" or "The Haunted Palace"? That's right, it's R "The Raven".

Next statement, the mood of the poem changes in the last stanzas.

Is that about "The Raven", "The Haunted Palace", or about both? It's about both, yes.

At the end of "The Raven", the poet, the speaker seems to be almost insane.

He was troubled and disturbed and unhappy at the beginning, but he is completely seems to have lost his mind by the end.

And at the end of "The Haunted Palace", the beautiful palace has changed.

Next statement, the mood of the poem is nostalgic.

Remember nostalgic needs to think about the past with fondness and also a touch of melancholy.

Is it "The Raven", "The Haunted Palace", or both? That's right, it's "The Haunted Palace".

Now it's the last one.

The poem has many characteristics of the Gothic genre.

"The Raven", "The Haunted Palace", or both? That's right, it's both.

Yes, both are Gothic poems. They both have isolated speakers.

They are both melancholy, they both have gloomy settings, well done.

So when we compare poems, it's important that we use the right kind of vocabulary.

So I want you to think about which connectives and conjunctions are useful for comparing similarities and differences.

Write them down in a list.

You could have written, similarly, also, in the same way, both.

They are really good connectives and conjunctions for writing about similarities.

And for differences you could have said however, whereas, on the other hand, and in contrast.

As we go through the lesson, I'd like you to remember these connectives and conjunctions and use them when you talk and write about the poems. Now let's have a check for understanding of how you use connectives and conjunctions.

I want you to choose from the list and complete the following sentence.

Blank "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace" are poems about loss.

"The Raven" is about a man who is mourning for a real person, blank "The Haunted Palace" is about a man feeling nostalgic for the loss of a beautiful building and the power it symbolised.

You can pause the video while you do that.

Welcome back, this is what you should have written.

Both "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace" are poems about loss.

"The Raven" is about a man who is mourning for a real person, whereas "The Haunted Palace" is about a man feeling nostalgic for the loss of a beautiful building and the power it symbolised.

Well done, good work.

Now is your opportunity to compare the poems in a little bit more detail.

In a minute, I'm gonna put up some sentence fragments that you are going to use to create a complex sentence comparing the two poems. Here are the sentence fragments.

"The Raven" is more focused on the speaker's inner feelings.

Both poems have an air of the supernatural.

But whereas "The Haunted Palace" refers to actual spirits.

Combine those sentence fragments into a complex sentence and remember to use commas and a full stop.

Welcome back, how did you do? This is what you should have written.

Both poems have an air of the supernatural comma, but whereas "The Haunted Palace" refers to actual spirits, comma, "The Raven" is more focused on the speaker's inner feelings.

Well done, really good work.

So we've looked at the meaning of the poems. Now we're gonna move on and look at how Poe uses literary techniques in the poems. And we're going to be comparing the use of literary techniques in the poems. How do we compare literary techniques? What's our technique for doing that? We choose similar literary techniques, for example, figurative language.

It's much easier to compare similar than, for example, to compare figurative language and the rhyme scheme.

We explain how they have a similar or a different effect.

So here's an example.

Adjectives are used very effectively in both "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace", particularly at the beginning of the poem.

So here's the poem, "The Raven" and it begins with the lines, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary." And I've put the adjectives in green.

So that's my way of highlighting them 'cause that's the ones I want to focus on.

And then I'm going to think about what effect is created.

So dreary gives us a gloomy environment and weak and weary.

It tells us that the the speaker of the poem has no energy or hope.

In many ways, his feelings match the environment.

Both are gloomy, both are without energy, both are quite dark.

And now I'm gonna do the same thing with "The Haunted Palace", "Banners, yellow, glorious, golden." That appears in the second stanza of "The Haunted Palace".

And again, I've picked out the adjectives in green, yellow, glorious, golden.

And I'm gonna do the same kind of analysis and annotation, bright colours, they sound vibrant, yellow and glorious sounds vibrant.

And then you have golden, a precious metal.

So it sounds as if the banners and by extension the palace are precious.

It's a precious, valuable place.

Let's have a quick check for understanding.

Is it true or false that Poe uses more positive adjectives in "The Haunted Palace" than he does in "The Raven"? It's true, and I'm gonna put up two statements, and I want you to pick the one that best supports that response.

Is it A, he uses adjectives associated with sunshine, or B, he uses adjectives to describe banners.

Yes, it's A, he does use adjectives to describe banners, but that's more like a factual statement than an analytical point.

Because in A, we are exploring the connotations of those yellow, golden, glorious adjectives.

Over to you.

I've put up two quotations here, one from "The Raven" and one from "The Haunted Palace".

And I'm gonna ask you to annotate those quotations in the same kind of detail that we did before where we looked at the previous quotations.

The quotations here are, "I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word 'Lenore!'" "The Haunted Palace", "A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty was but to sing." You want to look at what they have in common, what technique they're using in common, and explain the effect.

You can pause the video while you do that.

Welcome back, you may have annotated something like this, highlighting the echo and echoes.

The same word is used in both poems and identified that in "The Raven" we have it as personification because the echo is murmuring, but it sounds like he is talking to himself.

So this time, this use of personification here is indicative of the speaker's disturbed mind.

Is that similar or different to how he uses echoes in "The Haunted Palace"? Again, it's personification, but it's lots of voices this time.

It's a troop and he's surrounded by sound.

And here, of course, the voices are beautiful.

They're singing sweetly to the king.

So it's the same technique used for very different effects.

Excellent work, well done.

So let's look again at our lesson outline.

We've looked at the meaning of the poems. We've compared some literary techniques.

And now we're looking at you giving a personal response to the two poems. What do the students think about the poems? Jacob thinks that "'The Raven' is more powerful because it deals with human loss.

It shows you how powerful grief can be.

So, this poem has more to say about human experiences and it's easy to relate to." I want to draw your attention to the way Jacob talks, uses the word more.

"The poem is more powerful and it has more to say about human experiences." Useful word to use when talking about differences between the poems. And Izzy says that she "Prefers "The Haunted Palace".

We are told very little, but the palace is clearly described.

We wonder what happened.

And so we feel more involved and there is more scope for my imagination in this poem." So again, Izzy uses the word more, she uses it twice.

More involved and more scope to explain how she is comparing her response to the two poems. And both Jacob and Izzy talk about their own response.

So Jacob finds it easy to relate to because loss is a common human experience.

Whereas Izzy likes the the gaps, the many gaps in "The Haunted Palace".

We don't know what actually happened there.

So she is allowed to use her imagination.

Let's have a check for understanding.

Which of the following can be seen in the student's answers? Do they both include A, a clearly stated preference, B, reference to details in the poem C, quotations from the poem and D, a reason for liking the poem.

That's right, A, B, and D.

They haven't used quotations.

So it's over to you, now.

Which poem do you think is more effective? Which one do you like most and why? Which one do you find easiest to relate to and why? Which one do you think uses linguistic techniques more effectively? Have a think about that.

Jot down some ideas.

And then you're gonna write a personal response to the poem.

You can pause the video while you gather your thoughts.

Your answer should include a clearly stated preference, details from the poem, a reason for your preference, and comparative language to explain your response.

So remember that list of conjunctions and connectives that we made earlier.

They will be very useful when explaining your comparative response.

And don't forget the simple word more.

Again, very useful for explaining your comparative response.

Now write your personal response and pause the video while you do it.

Welcome back, time to check your work.

Read your work and tick where you included the following.

A clearly stated preference where you actually say, "I prefer the poem because", or "I think this poem is better because".

Some details from the poem, something that happened in it, a reference to one or two of the stanzas, something like that.

A reason for your preference.

Why do you like that poem more than the other? Why do you think it's more effective than the other? And take where you've used comparative language, the connectors and conjunctions that we looked at earlier, or the word more.

Well done, excellent work.

And that brings us to the end of this lesson where we compare two poems. I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson, which is the last one in the Gothic unit.

And now here's a summary of what you've been learning today.

That "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace" are both examples of the Gothic genre.

That "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace" both feature speakers who are grieving, one for a woman, the other for a house.

For both "The Raven" and "The Haunted Palace" use adjectives to convey feelings and ideas.

And that comparing two poems involves looking at similarities and differences in meaning and linguistic techniques.