ARENDELL PARROTT ACADEMY | CONTRIBUTED
VERSE AND RHYME: On Oct. 31, Parrott Academy seniors in AP Literature enjoyed a Macabre Poetry Festival marking the Halloween holiday. Each student was assigned an eerie, mysterious, or macabre poem to study. Gathering around an iPad video of a blazing fire or “virtual fireside,” students gave oral readings of the poems and discussed poets’ use of tone and figurative language. Poems included “The Witch Bride” by William Allingham, “The Man Moth” by Elizabeth Bishop, “Under the Vulture Tree” by David Bottoms, and the traditional English ballad “The Two Ravens.” Pictured, top row, left to right are William Brechtelsbauer (Greenville), Brendan Kerlin (Goldsboro), Madi Finizio (Kinston), Gatty Atassi (Greenville), Hawes Collier (Washington), (bottom, left to right) Morgan Barbre (Greenville), Lauren Jones (Kinston), Chelsea Thomas (Jacksonville) and Dai Jimenez-Zamudio (Kinston). Not pictured: Andrew Moll of Greenville.