Sounds
“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams/his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream"
What is alliteration
highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression.
What is metaphysical poetry
"The moonlight shone over the lake and reflected in her big, dark eyes."
What is visual imagery
first eight lines of a sonnet or eight line stanza of a poem
What is an octave
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, / And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
What is Assonance
A poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature and the interior world of feeling, in opposition to the mannered formalism
What is Romanticism
"you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops."
What is gustatory imagery
This type of line break is shown in, "
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?"
what is enjambment
"Pieced, glued, and properly jointed. / Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles"
What is cacophony
This era of poets wrote to praise or worship God. Poems were also written to explain Christian doctrine
what were the 16th and 17th century
“A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast”
Kinesthetic imagery
a metrical unit formed by a group of syllables by which a line of poetry is measured
What is a foot
the rhythmic rise and fall of a line as opposed to the regularity of meter
What is Cadence
Ex: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"
This era of poetry wrote about social upheaval, political satire, exploration, and human nature
What is the Age of Enlightenment
"They silently inhale
the clover-scented gale,
And the vapors that arise
From the well-watered and smoking soil"
What is olfactory imagery
The contrast in the line, “Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell” can best be described as this.
What is antithesis
regular recurrence of rhythmic sound pattern
what is meter
This era is marked by generally more pessimism and the disillusionment of human life.
What is Modernism (or 20th Century) poetry
"Thank you for being you, so savage a voice such a soft touch; I know how gentle feels, in the harshness of your arms and the tenderness of your words;"
What is tactile imagery
The couplet at the end of the sonnet, "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
What is the volta