Poetic Elements #1
Repetition
A comparison using like or as
Simile
Wrote "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Known for his poems showing nature.
Robert Frost
This poem is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln
"O' Captain, My Captain"
"Nevermore"
Repetition or personification
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
Rhyme, onomatopoeia, imagery
Imagery
A direct comparison that does not use like or as
Metaphor
Wrote "O'Captain, My Captain"
Walt Whitman
This poem was written as a joke, but many people use it as a life motto.
"The Road Not Taken"
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Rhyme or Personification
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
Alliteration, rhyme, hyperbole
Repetition of beginning consonant sound
Alliteration
Giving human qualities to something that is not human
Personification
Wrote "The Raven" and is known for his dark imagery and moods of his poems.
Edgar Allan Poe
This poem was written about some people the poet saw as she was walking in her community
"We Real Cool"
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
Metaphor - comparing the ship and its trip to America and the Civil War.
Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills:
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths - for you the shores a-crowding:
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning.
repetition, alliteration
A word that sounds like what it means
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Wrote 1800 poems, but most were unpublished before she died.
Emily Dickinson
This poem was written while his wife was slowly dying of Tuberculosis.
"The Raven"
We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin.
Rhyme, repetition, or alliteration
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Repetition
indirect or implied reference to something well-known
Allusion
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
Wrote "We Real Cool"
Gwendolyn Brooks
This poem is a snapshot of a peaceful moment in the middle of the night.
"Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Allusion, Rhyme, imagery
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
Onomatopoeia or imagery