Famous Poets
Key Features
Famous Poems
History
Poetry terms
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The poet who is responsible for writing the poem When You are Old and has a name similar to someone who attends MBHS.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
100
When an object or sentences is broken or choppy and hard to understand
What is Fragmentation?
100
One of the most famous English poems during the 1700 and was written mostly in Latin.
What is The Garden?
100
Modernist poetry is said to have "started in this year.
When is 1890?
100
Latin for seize the day.
What is Carpe Diem?
200
The poet who was the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956 and has the same name as a chess piece.
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
200
The most important key feature in Modernist Poetry, meaning free-ranging.
What is Open Form
200
Poem written in 1920 by Robert Frost about a fork in the road.
what is the road not taken?
200
Modernist poetry id said to have "ended" in this year.
When is 1950?
200
Purposeful pause.
What is a Caesura?
300
The poet who was inspired by T. S. Eliot and committed suicide at 32
Who is Hart Crane?
300
Using a figure of speech in an odd way which is not obvious at first.
What is Unusual Metaphors
300
A very well known poem by Matthew Arnold which has become very well-known, but is still found difficult to analyze.
What is Dover Beach?
300
Modernist poetry wasn't so popular in this time because of the popularity of war poems.
When is WWI?
300
form of poetry of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is elegy?
400
The poet who was born is St. Louis and moved to England, and is known as one of the Top 20 Poets of the 20th Century.
Who is Thomas Stearns Eliot?
400
The way the poet would give their poem a foreign and unfamiliar feel.
What is Borrowing from other cultures and languages.
400
The poem that was used as a template for other poets to compare their poems to.
What is The Garden?
400
Modernist poetry wasn't very popular in this time because of the economic crash?
When was the great depression?
400
Meter in poetry with 4 iambs.(8 syllables)
What is iambic tetrameter?
500
An American poet who was noted for her irony and wit, and was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by Poetry.
Who is Marianne Moore?
500
This is why many readers find it difficult to read Modernist poetry
What is the unknown narrator?
500
The poem uses the authors huge imagination and uses synonyms comparing to the Holocaust.
What is Daddy?
500
With the publication of this poem, modernist poetry had seemed to acquire a broader readership.
What is the wasteland?
500
meter in poetry with 6 dactyls.
What is dactylic hexameter?
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