Poetry Terms/History
The voice talking in a poem.
What is speaker?
Walt Whitman was known as the father of what?
What is Free Verse?
Some of the themes we talked about in class that Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Carl Sandburg's had in common were what?
Celebrated common, everyday people and their experiences. Or celebrated the beauty of ordinary life.
this is an excerpt written by E.E. Cummings from what poem?
"...who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion"
What is Buffalo Bill's
Wrote a poem titled "Harlem."
Who is Langston Hughes?
A type of poetry that uses ordinary language with no regular pattern.
What is Free Verse?
The writer's of the lost generation were part of what movement?
What is Modernism?
This poem is often mistaken for a tale about childhood trauma but because of the word choice and order, close readers can see it is not.
What is "My Papa's Waltz"?
this is an excerpt from a poem written by William Carlos Williams
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox.... forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold"
What is "This is Just to Say"
First black poet to win a pulitzer prize for their work?
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
This type of poem tells a story.
What is a narrative?
Which events (name 2) were the writers' of the Beat Generation influenced by.
What are WWII and the Red Scare or WWII and McCarthyism. Or the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the Red Scare.
These two men were taken to court and put on the FBI watchlist after City Lights Press published "Howl."
Who are Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti?
This is an excerpt from a poem written by Langston Hughes
"I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong."
What is "I Too"
Known as the Poet of the People.
Who is Carl Sandburg or Langston Hughes.
A poem that has the form and musical quality of a song, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
What is lyric poetry?
William Carlos Williams, Pound, and HD were part of which poetry movement?
What is Imagism?
In Ferlinghetti's, "In Goya's Greatest Scenes" what themes are prevalent?
What are suffering and alienation, or conformity and consumerism?
This is an excerpt from a poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.....one calm summer night he put a bullet through his head"
What is "Richard Cory"
This poet has held the title of U.S. Poet Laureate 3 consecutive times.
Who is Joy Harjo?
This greek philosopher was the first to name the 3 categories of poetry (lyric, dramatic, and narrative).
Who is Aristotle?
What literary time period is the Beat Generation considered to be a part of?
What is Postmodern Literature?
This poet helped raise awareness about the atrocities of slavery and planted the seeds for the abolitionist movement.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This is an excerpt from a poem by William Wordsworth
"For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
What is "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
This poet started project voice with a friend and fellow poet.
Who is Sara Kay