The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
This outsider comes to Hadleyburg to expose the town’s hypocrisy.
Who is the stranger
The poetic device used in the line “we wear the mask”.
What is repetition?
In “Facing It,” the speaker looks at this memorial and remembers his experiences in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
This literary device, used in Whitman’s repeated phrases such as “I hear” and “I believe”, helps him emphasis the many diverse aspects of America in “Song of Myself.”
What is Anaphora?
This American poet wrote, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
Who is Emily Dickerson
This couple is considered “the honest ones” in Hadleyburg.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Richards?
The line “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile" is an example of.
What is irony?
Who is the author of the poem “Facing It?
Yusef Komunyakaa
This poem features a speaker who tends wounded soldiers in overcrowded hospitals, revealing Whitman’s compassionate perspective from his time as a Civil War nurse.
The Wound Dresser
Emily advises us to tell the truth indirectly or from an angle
what is "slant."
This man receives a mysterious letter promising him the gold.
Who is Edward Richards
This group, who was historically marginalized and pressured to conceal their true feelings forms the unspoken “we” of the poem.
Who are African Americans?
A soldier’s death in “In the Field” becomes a source of grief and self-blame for the entire platoon, who is this soldier who died?
Kiowa
In this Civil War poem, loud drums and bugles interrupt everyday life, showing how war affects everyone.
What is “Beat! Beat! Drums!”
Dickinson uses this poetic advice when comparing telling the truth to lightning
What is a metaphor
This group in the town panics the most because they all submitted false claims.
Who are the citizens?
This object in the poem represents the false emotional front that people present to the world.
What is the mask?
“In the Field” explores a heavy emotional burden shared by several soldiers, what is this burden?
Guilt
In this piece, Whitman explains that the true suffering and reality of war can’t fully be recorded or remembered in official accounts.
What is “The real war will never get in the books”
"The truth must dazzle gradually." implies that the truth is similar to this bright object.
What is the sun?
This human weakness is revealed when the people of Hadleyburg try to claim the bag of gold.
What is greed
The poem ends with the speaker appealing to this entity, implying that only it can know the truth behind the mask.
Who is God?
The setting of “In the Field” takes place through this difficult terrain.
The muddy field
This poem shows Whitman describing a young fallen soldier that felt like a son to him.
What is “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night”
The poems comparison of truth to light represents what type of literally device.
What is imagery