Authors
Which author wrote a poem to his son giving advice about growing up?
Rudyard Kipling
The Representation through language of the five senses.
What is Imagery
Which poem urges readers to think beyond their limits?
Goldfish by In-Q
"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."
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
Which author wrote a poem to students comparing what he wants them to understand with how they actually view a poem?
Billy Collins
An overstatement used to stress a point a million times!
What is Hyperbole
Which poem urges readers to think beyond their limits?
The Tyger by William Blake
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?
Name the Poem from which these lines come:
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Which author came to America in the 1600's and was the colonies first published poet.
Anne Bradstreet
Concurrance of similar or identical sounds within different words.
What is Rhyme
Which poem urges students to take advantage of what had been given to them?
To The University of Cambridge by Phillis Wheatley
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"
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
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?"
In-Q
A line of poetry consisting of five iambic feet
What is Iambic Pentameter
Which poem emotionally connects the author to the work as if to a well loved child?
An Author to her Book by Anne Bradstreet
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.
Name the poem from which these lines come:
"Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
The Tyger by William Blake
Which British poet's poems were part of the Romantic Movement?
William Blake
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 Metonymy
Which poem helps us understand that we have the power within us to get up and keep going?
Still I rise by Maya Angelou
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Sometimes love is not loud but seen in the little things we do that often go un-noticed. His dad gets up every morning to warm the house including Sundays. His dad must have worked hard with his hands to provide for his family. He did it without thanks.
Name the Poem from which these lines come:
While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,
The muses promise to assist my pen;
'Twas not long since I left my native shore
The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom:
Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand
Brought me in safety from those dark abodes.
To the University of Cambridge by Phillis Wheatley