1. “The Darken’d Veil” by
Nathanial Hawthorne
Example PowerPoint for Poetry Assignment
Clair McKinnon
American Literature
(Be sure to include your name and period)

2. DARK ROMANTICISM
(1—PICTURE
An Overview
On this slide, I want you to include what
you have learned about the Dark
Romantics. Visit the following links on the
edublogs site to help you:
 --Dark Romanticism Background
 --Dark Romanticism Encyclopedia
 --Dark Romanticism SlideShare
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3. “The Darken’d Veil”
Oh could I raise the darken'd veil,
Which hides my future life from me,
Could unborn ages slowly sail,
Before my view—and could I see
My every action painted there,
To cast one look I would not dare.
There poverty and grief might stand,
And dark Despair's corroding hand,
Would make me seek the lonely tomb
To slumber in its endless gloom.
Then let me never cast a look,
Within Fate's fix'd mysterious book.
Summary
The speaker in the poem
“The Darken’d Veil” talks
about the possibility of
seeing what the future
holds. He describes the
possibility of looking into
the future and seeing
sorrow, and decides that if
he was given the chance,
he would not look into the
future to see what would
happen.
Your summary slide does NOT
have to include the poem

4. End Rhyme
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Would make me seek the lonely tomb
To slumber in its endless gloom.
Then let me never cast a look,
Within Fate's fix'd mysterious book.
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Hawthorne’s poem
includes end rhyme. The
words “gloom” and
“tomb” rhyme and the
words “look” and “took”
rhyme and are at the end
of the lines.
You will need to cite the poem
and show examples of the
poetic devices that you choose
to highlight in the poem.

5. Personification

There poverty and grief might
stand,
And dark Despair's corroding
hand,

Poverty and grief are
described as standing.
Despair is capitalized
and is given the human
quality of having a hand.

6. 
THIS SLIDE WILL
INCLUDE ONE MORE
POETIC DEVICE