The Raven

Question 1

Dreary

Answer 1

음울한
dull, bleak, and lifeless

Question 2

Quaint

Answer 2

매력적인 방식의 구식
Old-fashioned in a charming way

Question 3

Vain

Answer 3

헛된, 자만심이 강한
Having or showing an excessively high opinion of one’s appearance, abilities, or worth; narcissistic

Question 4

Surcease

Answer 4

정지하다
to come to an end

Question 5

Decorum

Answer 5

단정
proper and polite behavior

Question 6

ghastly

Answer 6

무서운
causing great horror or fear

Question 7

gaunt

Answer 7

수척한
(of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger or age.

Question 8

“Bust of Pallas” meaning in stanza 7?

Answer 8

“Pallas” refers to Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. The raven sits on Palla’s head and stands for calm, wisdom, and knowledge. The fact that the bird won’t leave the statue or sit anywhere else in the room shows that the speaker’s sadness is fixed and slowly stops him from thinking clearly.

Question 9

“Night’s Plutonian shore” meaning in stanza 8 and 17?

Answer 9

which is a reference to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld, the speaker indicates that the raven is a messenger from the dark underworld and actively connects it to death.

Question 10

“Is there balm in Gilead?” meaning in stanza 15?

Answer 10

which means a medicine made from resin (the narrator needs to be healed after the loss of Lenore.)