Terms
This is a figure of speech present in the poem "Head, Heart" in which the word for one thing is used to refer to something related to that thing.
What is metonymy?
This form tells a story and has a plot related to the narrator.
What is a narrative poem?
Lana Turner has collapsed! /
I was trotting along and suddenly
Who is Frank O'Hara?
This poem alludes to the bible, mythology, and the Holocaust.
What is "Lady Lazarus"?
This poet references daffodils throughout the poem.
Who is William Wordsworth?
This is a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem, and it often requires readers to read footnotes and conduct research.
What is an allusion?
This form is associated with brevity, musicality, a single speaker, and the expression of intense feeling
What is a lyric poem?
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, /
And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
Who is Countee Cullen?
This poem alludes to Hamlet, Lazarus, John the Baptist, and the sirens.
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
This poet is known for their brevity and extensive use of dashes.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa
What is synecdoche?
"The Ruined Maid" by Thomas Hardy is an example of this form of poetry. It consists wholly of dialogue among characters unmediated by a narrator.
What is dramatic poetry?
Let us go then, you and I, /
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Who is T. S. Eliot?
This poem includes the following allusions: pluto, Pallas, and Nepenthe.
What is "The Raven"?
This poet took inspiration for the poem we studied from a 1950s serial killer who murdered eleven people in the Great Plains.
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
This is a literary device that aims to make an animal or object behave and appear like it is a human being.
What is anthropomorphism?
This form is lyric in expression with one speaker and resembles a scene from a play; the primary focus is characterization, and the speaker often addresses one or more auditors.
What is a dramatic monologue?
I have done it again. /
One year in every ten
Who is Sylvia Plath?
This poem's final lines are
I am the master of my fate,/
I am the captain of my soul.
"What is "Invictus"?
This poet's poem can be viewed as a fond childhood memory or a violent scene of child abuse.
Who is Theodore Roethke?
This is a poetic meter marked by its structure of three iambs per line. Each iamb contains an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, creating a rhythmic pattern that lends to musicality and flow in poetry.
What is iambic trimeter?
This form invites the reader to look more closely at something in the surrounding world. It does not directly reveal the speaker's state of mind like the lyric form.
What is descriptive or observational poetry?
Our crossing was without /
event. I could not help, at times,
Who is Robert Hayden?
This poem can be interpreted as a poem about death or a poem about an appreciation of nature.
What is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
These two poets had opposing writing styles and were part of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who are Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen?