Authors
Which author wrote a poem to his son giving advice about growing up?
Who is Rudyard Kipling
What poem creeps in on little cat feet?
What is Fog by Carl Sandburg
The Representation through language of the five senses.
What is: Imagery
"If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,"
At some point someone will take your words and twist them, but you must keep on with your life and not let their lies get you off course.
Name the poem from which this line comes:
"But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it."
What is: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
Which author came to America in the 1600's and was the colonies first published poet.
Who is Anne Bradstreet
Which poem tries to show the beauty of nature but the devastation of man?
What is: Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
An overstatement used to stress a point a million times!
What is: Hyperbole
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
People can be mean and want others to feel "less than." They use words and actions to make another feel worse. She is asking a rhetorical question to the culture at large: Is this what you wanted me to feel? to be?
From which poem do these lines come?
"I felt so much at home
When God looked down and smiled at me"
What is: When Tomorrow Starts Without Me by DAvid Romano
Who is a professional spoken word artist, Emmy nominated lyricist, multi-platinum songwriter, world renowned keynote speaker, and the best-selling author of the poetry book “Inquire Within?"
Who is IN-Q
Which poem urges readers to think beyond their limits?
What is Goldfish by In-Q
A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history.
What is: An Allusion
These walls are keeping people out and keeping people in
I guess it's good to know where someone ends and someone elsebegins
But our boundaries become prisons when we see what could have been
The biggest goldfish ever measured 18 inches, snout to fin.
We all have limits. Sometimes they protect us and sometimes they keep us from growing. Our boundaries become prisons if we don't look outside the walls that have either been put in place for us or we refuse to grow. He compares us to goldfish who only grow as big as their container.
From which poem do these lines come?
"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness"
What is: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Which author won two Pulitzer Prizes?
Who is Carl Sandburg
Which poem features symmetry?
What is: The Tyger by William Blake
The attempt to label a thing by forming a word from sounds associated with it.
What is: Onomatopoeia
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
Nature is resplendent in all that it gives to man but man does not always appreciate all the gifts from nature. Man creates war and the behavior of man disappoints the author, especially when compared to the beautiful gifts of nature.
From which poem do these lines come?
"Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!"
What is: I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson
Which British poet's poems were part of the Romantic Movement?
Who is William Blake or William Wordsworth
Which poem emotionally connects the author to the work as if to a well loved child?
What is: The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part, e.g. in the phrase "All hands on deck," hands stand for people.
What is: Synedoche
Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view
She sees her work as her child and is really proud of her work but kind of has to pretend that she is not. In a broader sense she is showing how difficult it was at the time for a woman poet to be accepted and how much control a female author had (or didn't have) over her own work.
From which poem do these lines come?
"Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
What is: The Tyger by William Blake