ENGLISH POETRY FINAL

Introduction to Poetry
BY:Billy Collins
*metaphors, visual imagery, persona

A Poet’s Thought
BY: Thomas Hardy
*quatrain, end stop, rhythm (aa,bb,cc,dd), lazy rhyme/end rhymes, initial alliteration (maimed and mangled, time’s tongue)

CHAPTER 12

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
BY: William Butler Yeats
*end rhyme, quatrain, lyric poem

Those Winter Sundays
BY: Robert Hayden
*tactile/visual imagery, lyric poem, cacophony

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
BY: Adrienne Rich
*Narrative poem, end stop lines, euphony, rhyme scheme (aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff).

Sir Patrick Spence
BY: Anonymous
*Visual imagery, end stop, 4th quatrain lazy rhyme

Out Out
BY: Robert Frost
*Lyric poem, onomatopoeia, sound imagery, internal assonance

My Last Duchess
BY: Robert Browning
*Dramatic monologue, run-on

Ask Me
BY: William Stafford
*persona, run-on

Verse
Single line of poetry or any composition written in separate line of more or less regular rhythm

Paraphrase
Restatement in one’s own words of what one understands a poem to say or suggest

Summary
Brief condensation of the main idea or plot of work

Subject
Main topic of a work

Theme
Recurring subject or idea

Lyric poem
short poem expressing thoughts and feelings, songlike immediacy & emotional force

Narrative poem
tells a story (Ballads and epics 2 common forms)

Dramatic monologue
poem written as a speech, addressing a silent listener

Didactic poem
Intended to teach a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge

CHAPTER 13

My Papa’s Waltz
BY: Theodore Roethke
*slant/end rhyme, visual/tactile/smell imagery

Speech to the Young.

Speech to the Progress-Toward

BY: Gwendolyn Brooks
*Dramatic monologue, end stop, initial alliteration

White Lies
BY:Natasha Trethewey
*Visual Imagery, run-on

Dog Haiku
BY: Anonymous
*haiku, dramatic irony, allusion, onomatopoeia

Oh No
BY: Robert Creeley
*Verbal irony, run on, sarcasm

Tone
conveys an attitude toward the person addressed

Satiric poetry
Comic poetry generally conveys a message

Persona
Fictious character

Irony
speaking that implies a discrepancy

Verbal Irony
words say one thing but mean something else

Sarcasm
Verbal irony conspicuously bitter, mocking

Dramatic irony
situation where character with limited knowledge says/does something of greater significance

Cosmic irony/irony of fate
Fate with grim sense of humor, seems to cruelly trick a human being

CHAPTER 14

This is just to Say
BY: William Carlos Williams
*Sarcasm, taste/tactile imagery, minimalist, open form

Upon Julia’s Clothes
BY: Robert Herrick
*Formal diction (liquefaction), euphony, mostly general diction, lyric poem

English con Salsa
BY:Gina Valdes
*All 5 imagery, persona, open form, run and end stop, metaphors, obvious dialect

Diction
choice of words

Concrete diction
immediately perceive with senses

Abstract diction
express ideas or concepts

Poetic diction
system of words, elevated language intended for poetry rather than common use

allusion
indirect reference to any person,place, or thing.

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decorum
propriety

vulgate
speech not much affected by schooling (common people)

colloquial
casual conversation or informal writing of literate people

general English
most literate speech and writing

formal English
impersonal language, usually written

dialect
variety of language spoken by regional group or social class

CHAPTER 15

The Bean Eaters
BY:Gwendolyn Brooks
*Alliteration (twinklings & twinges), quatrain, mostly end stop, no set rhythm

denotation
defined in dictionary, literal meaning

connotations
overtones or suggestion of additional meaning (emotional)

CHAPTER 16

In a Station of the Metro
BY: Ezra Pound
*visual imagery, end stop, minimalist poem

The piercing chill I feel
BY:Taniguchi Buson
*Haiku, internal alliteration (Piercing chill I), visual imagery

The Fish
BY: Elizabeth Bishop
*Image poem, visual/tactile imagery

Image
words refer to sensory experience

Imagery
collective sets of images

Haiku
Japanese verse poem, 3 unrhymed lines (5,7,5). serious and spiritual, imagery, one of seasons

CHAPTER 17

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)
BY:William Shakespeare
*Shakespearean Sonnet (octave,seset,hero couplet), closed form, iambic pentameter, informal(thee-vulgate)

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
BY: Howard Moss
*modernized, internal alliteration, lazy rhymes, satiric

simile
compare two things (like,as,than)

metaphor
one thing is something else

implied metaphor
imply metaphorically, don’t specifically say

mixed metaphor
combining 2 or more incompatible metaphors, results ridiculousness or nonsense

personification
endowing of a things, animal, abstract with human characteristics

apostrophe
direct address to someone or something (inanimate object, dead or absent person)

overstatement
hyperbole. exaggeration to emphasize a point

understatement
ironic figure of speech describes something less that it actually is

metonymy
name of a thing substituted for another closely related

synecdoche
significant part of a thing stand for the whole thing

paradox
statement first as self contradictory, but reveals some deeper sense. play on words

CHAPTER 19

Who Goes with Fergus
BY: William Butler Yeats
*alliteration (for fergus), assonance (and all)internal assonance (O), euphony, cacophony(line 13), end/slant rhymes, rhythm (abc,abc,def,def)

All day I hear
BY: James Joyce
*lazy rhyme, assonance (O), onomatopoeia (moan), alliteration (making moan), euphony poem

No More Jazz at Alcatraz
BY: Bob Kaufman
*Internal Assonance (O), alliteration line 4, lines 11-14 cacophony, rest of poem euphony, slant/end rhymes

euphony
sound of words pleasing to the ears

cacophony
harsh effect, sounds terrible

onomatopoeia
word imitates sound

alliteration
succession similar sounds (cool cats)

assonance
repeat vowel sound (initial or internal)

rhyme
identical or similar vowel sounds

slant rhyme
nearly rhyme

lazy rhyme
same word

consonance
same beginning and end but different vowel

end rhyme
end of lines

internal rhyme
within lines

CHAPTER 20

We Real Cool
BY: Gwendolyn Brooks
*run on, initial alliteration (strike straight, sing sin), all unstressed

Break, Break, Break
BY: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
*end rhymes, no meter, end stop, internal assonance (O)

Counting-out Rhyme
BY: Edna St. Vincent Millay
*end stop/run on, slant rhymes, trochaic

stress (accent)
greater force on one syllable

cesura
slight but definite pause in line

end stopped
lines end in full pause, punctuation

run on
line doesn’t end in punctuation

meter
rhythmic pattern of stress in verse

iambic line
line made up of iambs (unstressed, stressed)

rhythm
recurring pattern of stresses and pauses

trochaic line
line of trochees (stressed, unstressed)

anapestic line
line of anapests (2 unstressed, stressed)

dactylic line
line of dactyls (stressed, 2 unstressed)

iambic pentameter
line of 5 iambs

CHAPTER 21

Counting the Beats
BY: Robert Graves
*memento mori, quatrain, lazy rhymes, rhythm (aaaa,bbba,ccca,ddda,eeea,bbba) fairly regular rhythm

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
BY: Edna St. Vincent Millay
*Italian sonnet (almost), iambic pentameter, octave, cesura, sestet (terset turn & final heroic terset), initial alliteration, run on

form
literary work expresses content (design)

fixed form
traditional requiring predetermined elements

closed form
poetry in pattern of meter, rhyme, lines, stanzas (set structure)

open form
no set scheme, free verse

blank verse
5 iambic ft/line, unrhymed

couplet
2 rhymed lines of iambic pentameter

quatrain
stanza of 4 lines

epic
long narrative poem, adventure of hero (consistent form)

epigram
very short, comic poem, sharp wit- turning at end

sonnet
fixed form, 14 lines, iambic pentameter and rhymed

Italian sonnet
rhymes octave and sestet

English sonnet
Shakespearean, 3 quatrains and concluding couplet

CHAPTER 22

For the Anniversary of My Death
BY: W.S. Merwin
*memento mori, open form, initial alliteration (tireless traveler), simile, run on

Buffalo Bill’s
BY: E.E. Cummings
*projective verse, fast rhythm, run on (within lines), visual imagery, no rhythm

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