Author Info
Aptly named, this town on the East Coast is the hometown of poet Wallace Stevens.
What is Reading, Pennsylvania?
One central theme of Bronzes by Carl Sandburg
What is: unity?
What is: rebirth?
What is: modernity?
Technique used in Carl Sandburg's Bronzes to make elements like the lake "come to life."
What is personification?
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a similie?
Name of the person who frequently forgets to put their phone in the pouch at the beginning of class.
Who is Jake?
The number of Pulitzer Prizes Carl Sandburg was awarded over his lifetime; the same number of poetry collections that Richard Silken has published.
What is three?
The theme of The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens
The use of one word or phrase over and over again in a written work, such as "green" in Meanwhile and "bronze" in Bronzes.
What is repetition?
What is a stanza?
The name of Offred's deceased husband in The Handmaid's Tale.
Who is Luke?
The year that Meanwhile by Richard Silken was written, one of the poems discussed today.
When is 2005?
The focus that brings our three poems, Bronzes, Man With A Blue Guitar, and Meanwhile together.
A sudden stop
What is caesura?
The style of poetry with a specific meter, popularized by Shakespeare.
What is iambic pentameter?
The room number of Ms. Handelman's classroom
What is W215?
The collection of poetry from which Bronzes was selected.
What is Chicago Poems?
What we identified the repetition of "green" represented in Richard Silken's Meanwhile.
What is nature, newness, cyclicality?
The technique used by all three of our poems to make the scene more descriptive and immersive.
What is imagery?
A hymn or a song of grief
What is dirge?
Name of the actor who played Hamlet in the movie we watched.
Who is Kenneth Branagh?
The artist who created the painting The Old Guitarist, which inspired Wallace Stevens to write The Man With the Blue Guitar.
Who is Picasso?
The central focus of all three of our poems
What is everyday life?
The technique used as the opener of all three of our poems.
A poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet.
What is abecedarian?
Each of our (Sadie, Elle, & Emma) last names.
Corey, Ghogomu, Thomas