時事: 白人警察殺黑人小孩事件

=> unemployment

=>　經濟蕭條 (1930, World War I)

Rationale: It may refer to:

An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something.

Rationale (clothing), a liturgical vestment worn by clergy, in particular by Roman Catholic Church bishops.

* Sara: 讓自己做更好的人，面對問題有更好的能力。

* Sara: 重要的是你的態度。

About Edgar Allan Poe

1. Poe is called Father of the American short story

2. He explore the possibilities of short story.

3. He reasoned that the end of art is beauty, not truth.

4. He's "philosophy of composition" caused "unity of effect".

5. Work: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven"

6. When people think about the importance of Poe, they mostly will think of: criticism, artistic practice, short story, and poetry

About The Raven

1. It is most famous in the movie Findinf Forrester and it is als use as a symbol of Baltimore Raven. (Poe died in Baltimore.)

 => Movie: The Blind Side

2.   Gauguin's Nevermore

3.  "Nevermore" is an onomatopoeia which sounds like the caw of ravens.

=> John Keats  " Ode to Psyche"

=> Percy Bysshe Shelley  "Ode to the West Wind" 

      "The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,

        If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"  (feeling floating)

=> William Wordsworth  "I Wondered as a Cloud"

About The Fall of the House of Usher

1. The word "fall" of the book title means to fall down (墜落), and the "house" can either be one house or to refer as a whole family community.

2. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839.

About The Tell-Tale Heart

1. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843.

2. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed.

About Annabel Lee

1. Genre: ballad ( narrative poem + musical element)

2. "Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman.

-ium: 框線

example: aqurium

              gynatium