This was a GREAT Simpsons episode!!! HAHA I used to watch them all the time as a kid!!! Christopher Walken's version was definitely more creepy and morbid feeling than James Earl Jones' version but both equally helped me understand the poem. When i first read this poem, I didn't really understand the meaning of the raven and his "nevermore". It got repetitive after awhile and I was kind of bored. When I actually HEARD it being read by Walken, I was thinking, this is pretty cool!! The pauses and the dashes almost reminded me of Emily Dickinson's poetry, how Walken would pause and you would read on, thinking that he would start again, but his pauses were longer than anticipated. I listened to the video and followed along with the poem, checking out who paused more, who emphasized more, and it was excellent!!!!
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