Author Facts
The first woman to receive both Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes.
Pearl S. Buck
Edgar Allen Poe
The melodic sound and purpose of bells.
The Bells
"The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?"
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Was constructed so the printed shape reflected the topic of the poem.
The Figure Poem
A Jesuit priest who didn't gain popularity till the 20th century.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
To feel what others are feeling.
Sympathy
"It's as I said-you simply have to be firm with these native tailors!"
The Frill by Pearl S. Buck
Usually has no rhyme or meter and tends to follow the normal rhythms of speech.
Free Verse
The first black poet to receive national and international praise for his use of dialect.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hind's Feet on High Places
Hannah Hurnard
Selfishness and insensitivity, especially relating to colonial exploitation.
The Frill
"How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of the night? While the stars, that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight;"
The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe
A short 5 line poem of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables
The Cinquain
Lochinvar
Sir Walter Scott
God's greatness is never diminished.
God's Grandeur
Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Contains three quatrains and a couplet and has a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg
The Sonnet
The Frill
Pearl S. Buck
An allegory picturing the walk of a Christian in this wicked world.
Hinds' Feet on High Places
"It's as I said-you simply have to be firm with the native tailors!"
The Frill by Pearl S. Buck
A fixed form poem of five lines and the rhyme scheme of aabba
The Limerick