Read the first stanza from "the raven." once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore– while i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'tis some visitor," i muttered, "tapping at my chamber door– only this and nothing more." which best describes the scene that the author is setting through the use of imagery in the stanza?
a. the speaker is up late at night reading and hears a knocking sound.
b. the speaker is sleeping and is awakened by someone calling to him.
c. the speaker is reading a ghost story and imagines that he sees a ghost.
d. the speaker is napping and does not hear a visitor who taps on the door.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.