Read the excerpt from "harlem."

does it stink like rotten meat?
or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

me !

read the excerpt from "the weary blues."

droning a drowsy syncopated tune
rocking back and forth to a mellow croon

in both poems, hughes uses the imagery to

a. establish tone.
b. offer background information.
c. convey a criticism.
d. conjure pleasant memories.

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room