Elements
What literary element is being used in Baxter's "Elegy for My Father's Father":
"O for the tall tower broken / Memorial is denied"
What is a metaphor?
What is wave-like?
This poet wrote the poem "My Parents"
Who is Stephen Spender?
The poet that wrote "The Trees"
Who is Phillip Larkin
This poem revolves around the following themes: rebellion, parents, solidarity
What is "For Heidi With Blue Hair"?
Which two literary/poetic elements/devices are being used in the final line of Larkins "The Trees": "Begin afresh, afresh, afresh"
What is repetition, and onomatopoeia?
Charlotte Mew uses form to make her poem look like this.
What is, a tree with an ax in it?
"You were / water to me / deep and bold and fathoming." This first stanza comes from this poem.
What is "Praise Song for My Mother"?
Siegfried Sassoon wrote this war poem.
What is "Attack"?
This poem revolves around the following themes: Parents, nature, nostalgia
What is "Praise Song For My Mother"?
Name the literary element and poem:
"In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun"
What is personification and "Attack"?
What form does Wilfred Owen use in his poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth?"
What is a sonnet?
This poet wrote about this poem; the fatalities of war and the trivial response from the government
Who is Wilfred Owen, 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'?
This poet wrote about a lover who crossed "a mile of warm sea-scented beach".
Who is Robert Browning?
This poem revolves around the following themes: Nature, Nostalgia, Religion
What is "The Trees are Down" by Charlotte Mew
This poet used a metaphor to compare mean children to the animals of a jungle, in this poem.
What is Stephen Spender's "My Parents"?
What element of language is Charlotte Mew using?: "And lonely against the sky. / (Down now!—)"
What is dialogue?
"I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, / some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent." Are lines from this poet's poem.
Who is Elizabeth Bishop, 'One Art'?
This New Zealander died in 2008 and wrote many post-war/modernist poems. He was also a Maori.
Who is Hone Tuwhare?
This poem revolves around the following themes: Love, Loss, Time
What is "Cold in the Earth" by Emily Bronte"
The 3 elements of the following passage: "Pursed to the lips her fine-edged
leaves made whistle - now stamp
no silken tracery on the cracked
clay floor." From Tuwhare's "Friend".
What are personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration?
Emily Dickinson's poem 'Because I could Not Stop for Death' uses this punctuation and these 2 meters to help emphasize the trotting of the horse
What is dashes and a meter alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter?
This Singapore-born Australian poet, resists the label of 'autobiographical poet', describing himself as a "poet of experience"; he wrote this poem.
Who is Boey Kim Cheng, "Reservist"?
"Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, / That brings our friends up from the underworld." This is a line from this poem's second stanza.
What is "Tears, Idle Tears"?
This poem revolves around these two themes: Time and Death
What is "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" By Emily Dickinson