C.) Improving your reading skills
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Explanation:
Maya Angelou's autobiographical book ends with the birth of her son because it reinforces the main theme of the novel, the maturation of the main character Marguerite. By keeping the pregnancy a secret, Marguerite is able to graduate from high school, something she would not be able to do if her pregnancy is known
The raven remains sitting. He overshadows the narrator, whose soul will never see happiness again.
<span>Analysis: </span>Boo! Hoo! Get a gun and shoot that freaking bird already! The raven's shadow most likely symbolizes sadness. It covers the narrator's soul, symbolic of the narrator never being happy again. Some claim the last stanza relates the narrator's death. They're wrong. The shadow remains on the floor and It's the narrator's soul that will never climb out from under the shadow of sadness. If your teacher tells you he died, tell him he's wrong. If he disagrees, ask him how a dead man can narrate a poem.
The rhyme scheme in the poem is: a b b a a b b a c d e c d e.
There is no end couplet, which makes this poem a Petrarchan sonnet.
Petrarchan sonnet consists of fourteen lines, the first eight lines (also called oc<em>tave</em>) follow the scheme: a b b a a b b a, and the rhyme scheme of the following six lines (also called <em>sestet</em>) may vary.
