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What is Romanticism?
This poem by William Blake represents the theme of innocence through its gentle language and pastoral imagery.
What is "The Lamb?"
This poem includes euphemistic themes that represent an unnamed author trying to convince his father to fight against the "dying of the light."
What is "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night?"
This can happen in a poem when there is a dramatic shift in voice, tone, form, topic, or style of imagery.
What is a Turn?
In this poem, Robert Frost uses a fork in the road to represent a life choice or decision individuals must make.
What is "The Road Not Taken?"
This movement came before Romanticism and valued symmetry and geometry in art and often referenced Classical themes.
What is Neoclassicism?
This poem by William Blake explores more experienced themes of Romanticism such as awe of nature, emotional intensity, and divine mystery.
What is "The Tyger?"
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" contains the phrase "blinding sight," which is an example of this type of literary device.
What is a Paradox?
This type of sonnet is written with an octave at the beginning and a sestet at the end with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDCDCD.
What is a Petrarchan Sonnet?
This Sonnet by Shakespeare compares his love to a summer's day.
What is Sonnet 18?
In this poem, a member of a ship makes a rash and impulsive decision to shoot down an albatross.
What is "Rime of the Ancient Mariner?"
In this poem by William Wordsworth, the author reflects on a key theme of Romanticism, this being the Sublime, during his tour of a place he had visited 5 years prior.
What is "Tintern Abbey?"
This poem by Walt Whitman is an extended metaphor for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and America coming out of the Civil War.
What is "O Captain My Captain?"
This type of sonnet is one large stanza lumped together with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
This Sonnet by Shakespeare uses the line(s) "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom" to portray the theme of love being constant.
What is Sonnet 116?
This animal hanging around the Mariner's neck in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" symbolizes guilt and a burden that the Mariner must carry.
What is an Albatross?
This type of poem is written to appreciate and honor someone or something.
What is an "Ode?"
This type of poem has 19 lines and follows a fairly strict rhythm and rhyme scheme.
What is a Villanelle?
This type of sonnet has three interlocking quatrains with a final rhyming couplet with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
What is a Spenserian Sonnet?
This is the number of stanzas in the poem "The Bells."
What is 4?
This type of poem oftentimes is accompanied by artwork and was made well-known by William Blake.
What is an Illustrated Poem?
This type of poem expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for someone who has died.
What is an "Elegy?"
This type of poem is 14 lines and uses Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Sonnet?
Name the three themes that we looked into for our various Sonnets.
What is Love, Death, or Time?
This poem by Edgar Allen Poe uses inanimate objects to symbolize different stages of life.
What is "The Bells?"