HURRY I BEG YOU 40 POINTS Read this stanza from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

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."

How does what happens in this stanza propel the action in the poem?

It gives the speaker a reason to speak to the raven.

It introduces the story and sets up the coming events.

It establishes why Lenore has left the speaker alone.

It resolves the main conflict of the story.

The way in which the thing which happens in this stanza propel the action in the poem is:

This refers to way in which a poem is arranged into two or more lines which work as a unit.

With this in mind, we can see that from the given text, there is the use of stanza to show how the story is introduced and how the coming events are set up for better understanding.

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what is a theme?

ans: the implicit idea of a written work of literature is called a theme.

so, the only theme of "birdfoot's grampa" by joseph bruchuc is that as a human being one should always remember the value of every life on earth.

the grampa is stopping the car again and again to save those little toads from washing away in the heavy rain is an act of kindness and humanity.

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things