Authors
Which author wrote a poem to his son giving advice about growing up?
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
"If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,"
At some point someone will take your words and twist them, but you must keep on with your life and not let their lies get you off course.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
What is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
The Representation through language of the five senses.
What is Imagery
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want
Psalms 23:1
Which author came to America in the 1600's and was the colonies first published poet.
Who is Anne Bradstreet.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
People can be mean and want others to feel "less than." They use words and actions to make another feel worse. She is asking a rhetorical question to the culture at large: Is this what you wanted me to feel? to be?
Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
What is The Author to her Book by Anne Bradstreet
An overstatement used to stress a point a million times!
What is Hyperbole
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
What is Psalms 1:1
Which Poet was also famous for Alice in Wonderland?
Who is Lewis Caroll?
Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view
She sees her work as her child and is really proud of her work but kind of has to pretend that she is not. In a broader sense she is showing how difficult it was at the time for a woman poet to be accepted and how much control a female author had (or didn't have) over her own work.
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If by Rudyard Kipling
A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history.
What is an Allusion
A time to give birth and a time to die
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted
A time to kill and a time to heal
Ecclesiastes 3:2-3
Which British poet's poems were part of the Romantic Movement emphasizing emotion, individualism, and nature?
Who is William Blake?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat.
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
The lines question the immense power and skill required to create the ferocious tiger, asking what type of divine strength and artistry was necessary to form its vital heart and what powerful, fearful divine being (or "dread hand") was responsible for its creation and existence.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
What is Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
The attempt to label a thing by forming a word from sounds associated with it.
What is Onomatopoeia
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for you, O God
What is Psalms 42:1
Which author had to prove that she was able to read and write poetry?
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Improve your privileges while they stay,
Ye pupils, and each hour redeem, that bears
Or good or bad report of you to heav'n.
Let sin, that baneful evil to the soul,
By you be shun'd, nor once remit your guard;
She urges students to make the most of their intellectual and spiritual opportunities while warning against the dangers of sin. Wheatley, the first Black woman poet in America to publish a book, addresses privileged Harvard students, encouraging them to reject sin and use their God-given abilities for good.
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
What is The Tyger by William Blake
The literal or explicit meaning that a word or image carries, as distinct from the implied meaning.
What is Denotation
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble
Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea
Psalms 46