Terminology 1
Blocks of poetry put together with different numbers of lines
Stanza
Poetry without a recognized pattern or scheme
Free Verse
What might be a theme within the poem 'Facing It' by Yusef Komunyaaka. Explain yourself!
Answers vary, but something along the lines of trauma, war, racism, and invisible wounds may work
'Suicide Note', a poem about an Asian American College student who committed suicide due to stress about grades, is written by this Asian American Poet
Janice Mirikitani
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelly, this poem imagines a fallen statue covered in sand and invokes the phrase, 'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Ozymandias
Regular occurrence of a sound
Rhythm
Length of a poetic line
Meter
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' is focused around what type of theme.
Grief, loss, possible insanity, never seeing a lost loved one again. If you say Nevermore, I will appreciate you all the more.
Both 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb' were written by this poet, who wrote and painted by etching things into copper.
William Blake
By poet Maggie Smith, this poem speaks on protecting our children from the evils of the outside world for as long as we can, using the metaphor of real estate.
Good Bones
Almost perfect rhymes with similar but not exact sounds
Slant Rhyme
How the poet is trying to sound within the poem, how they make the speaker sound
Voice
What might the tone be in Jean Toomer's Reapers?
Dark, gloomy, pessimistic about life, humanity, and most definitely industrialization
A minimalist poem focused on imagery, 'The Red Wheelbarrow' was written by this poet.
William Carlos Williams
Written by Robert Frost, this poem invokes the lines:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken
Culturally recognized idea or image that suggests something else
Conventional Symbol
Mental Pictures rooted in physical and tangible natures
Concrete Imagery
What do you imagine the theme is for 'Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong' by Ocean Vuong.
Self-acceptance or lack thereof. Abuse due to stigma (race, orientation, gender etc.), self-preservation/protection
Noted as one of the most anthologized poems in the world, 'Ode to a Nightingale' was written by this poet.
John Keats
What is the name of this poem written by Ezra Pound:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
In the Station of the Metro
A break between words within a metrical foot
Caesura
The way in which the poem is formatted by line, rhyme scheme, syllables, and stress of language
Form
What might the tone be in 'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke.
Will vary wildly between dark abuse scene, tender with a moment between father and son, and everything in between
Who wrote the poem 'For the dogs who barked at me on the street in Connecticut', a poem with racial undertones though focused on memory and grief.
Hanif Abdurraqib
Dylan Thomas wanted to rage against death in his seminal poem called...
Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night