Emily Dickinson Background
Dickinson said that she knew poetry when she felt
What is physically as if the top of her head was taken off or so cold no fire could ever warm her.
Let us go then you and I
Who is T.S. Eliot
The poet's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures and figurative language; level of language
What is diction?
Good dog
What is "Dog's Death"?
A poem should ___ rather than tell.
What is "show."
Dickinson used unconnventional
What is punctuation?
I Heard a Fly buzz when I died
Who is Dickinson?
"Blinding sight" is an example of an
What is an oxymoron?
I do Not think that they will sing to me.
What is "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Which poet is known for the sequential logic of his imagery>
Who is T.S. Eliot?
Dickinson wrote several poems about ____ pain.
What is mental?
Rage, rage againstthe dying of the light
Who is Dylan Thomas?
Language that appeals to the senses is called
What is imagery?
Men do not sham Convulsion, / Nor simulate a Throe --
What is "I Like a look of agaony"?
Who wrote "Splitting an Order"?
Who is Ted Kooser?
Name at least one of Dickinson's major themes.
What are mental anguish, seclusion, death, idealism, faith and doubt.
It was not Death, for I stood up
Who is Dickinson?
This type of poetry does not use a predictable form or regular rhthym and rhyme scheme.
What is open form?
Where a child would have cried "Mama!"
Where a child would have believed "Mama"
What is "Pain for a Daughter"
EWhich poet is known for using "Objective correlatives" to evoke responses from his readers?
Who is Eliot?
jDickinson's poetry is very subjective; At least one-fifth of Dickinson's poems begin with
What is "I."
She had/A heart -- how shall I say? -- too soon made glad
Who is Robert Browning?
Repetition of the same vowel sounds such as "tide" and "time."
What is assonance?
while she slowly unrolls her napkin and places her spoon,
her knife and her fork in their proper places,
then smoothes the starched white napkin over her knees
and meets his eyes and holds out both old hands to him.
What is "Splitting an Order"?
This is another term for false emotion. Greeting card poetry is more likely to use this.
What is sentimentality?