(MC)
Roderick Usher's poem
By Edgar Allan Poe
I. In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace—
Radiant palace—reared its head.
In the monarch Thought's dominion—
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair.
II. Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow;
(This—all this—was in the olden
Time long ago);
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.
...
V. And, round about his home, the glory
That blushed and bloomed
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
VI. And travellers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh—but smile no more.
Read this line from Roderick Usher's poem:
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
What does the phrase dim-remembered mean? (5 points)
Question 16 options:
1)
Only vaguely remembered
2)
Not at all remembered
3)
Infrequently remembered
4)
Unhappily remembered
