Types of Poetry
This type of poem tells a story and is meant to be sung.
The narrator of a poem.
What is the speaker?
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the __(blank)__.
This poem talks about how death is a natural part of life and how there is eternal life after mortality.
What is "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."
Haikus usually use this literary device.
What is imagery?
This type of poem has 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter
What is Shakespearean sonnet?
This type of poetry does not have specific rules for line length, rhyme scheme or rhythm.
What is open form or free verse?
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my _(blank)__ surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
What is books?
The main idea of "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"
Even though the speaker's lover is not perfect and possess the type of unrealistic and exaggerated attributes expressed in other poems, his love for her is authentic and rare.
The MAIN literary device used in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
What is personification?
This type of poetry has a regular rhythm and is meant to be (or could be) sung
What is lyrical?
The poetic term for this type of rhyme:
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
What is internal rhyme?
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never __(blank)___ - at all -
100 Bonus: What is this stanza saying about hope?
What is "stops"?
Hope is resilient and lasting.
Two ideas or images that “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” have in common
Grief, lost love, eternal love, supernatural images, heaven/hell, angels and demons
What are two main literary devices used in “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun”
Imagery, irony, metaphor/simile
A ballad is an example of this type of poem.
The poetic term for a change in the mood or speaker’s understanding.
What is poetic shift?
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my __(blank)__ from the __(blank)__
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
100 Bonus: What does this mean?
What is soul?
Their love is eternal and not even death can keep them apart.
The main idea of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”
Real love doesn’t change when circumstances do—it is steadfast and endures forever.
What is the extended metaphor/symbol in "Hope is the thing with feathers"?
A bird
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is:
ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
A pair of lines in a poem that usually rhyme and have the same meter. Often, it expresses a complete thought or idea.
What is a couplet (or rhyming couplet)?
From "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"
Love's not time's _(blank__), though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come.
50 Bonus: How does Shakespeare personify time?
What is fool?
Bonus: As the grim reaper (death)
The main idea of "Annabel Lee"
Love endures even after death.
According to this passage, why did Annabel Lee die?
"The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee."
The angels killed her because they were jealous of their love.