Name the Poet
Suffered scarring in a house fire
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Suggests that snow is a healer.
The First Snowfall
Compares nature's never ending cycle to human mortality.
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We place with joy a votive stone,
That memory may their deeds redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Rhyme Scheme?
A
B
A
B
An extravagant statement not intended to be taken literally
hyperbole
Suffered the loss of several of his children
James Russell Lowell
A recluse who never intended poems to be published.
Emily Dickinson
Sometimes we love those who are seemingly complicated.
Ardella
The black man has the same dreams as the white man.
Dream Variations
Vowel rhyme
assonance
What figurative language is used here?
"The great tomb of man"
metaphor
His motto was "Trust thyself."
Transcendentalism was an intellectual movement founded by him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most popular and enduring African American writers of the twentieth century.
Langston Hughes
Suggests that snow is an architectural artist.
The Snowstorm
A spider's physical exploration is compared to a human's spiritual exploration.
A Noiseless Patient Spider
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
iamb
What figurative language is used here?
"Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me"
personification
Started writing poetry when he was nine. Known as the father of American poetry.
William Cullen Bryant
His work for social justice made him “the conscience of an era.”
(Harlem Renaissance)
Arna Bontempts
Depicts death as an ordinary, everyday occurance.
I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died -
A celebration of America and its workers
I Hear America Singing
the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter
alliteration
What device is used here?
"And the sudden flurry of snowbirds
Like brown leaves whirling by…”
simile
Criticized for being "overly optimistic and sentimental"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Known as the father of free verse
Walt Whitman
Compares human consciousness to vast domains of nature and God
The Brain - is Wider than the Sky -
The black race, one day, will not be separated by the white race
I, Too
the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession
consonance
Name the meter
"We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain."
iambic tetrameter
Utilized slant rhyme and wrote primarily in alternating iambic tetrameter/trimeter
Emily Dickinson
I write of America as home [although] I am really a poet without a country
Claude McKay
Expresses the memories of an earlier time by recalling elements of the tropics.
The Tropics of New York
Death is really just a return to nature
Thanatopsis
a direct address to a person, object, or thing
apostrophe
Name the meter.
"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky"
iambic pentameter
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