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If the red slayer thinks he is slays, Or if the slain thinks he is slain They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again
Emerson, "Brahma"
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Lived in a cabin beside a pond for 2 years
Henry David Thoreau
100
To give or pass-down something to someone else
Bequeath
100
That cat wore a hat when he got up to bat
assonance - same vowel sound
100
________ - allowing light but not detailed images
translucent
200
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain
Dickinson
200
Was a recluse and shut in, hardly leaving her house
Emily Dickinson
200
1/8 of a mile
furlong
200
Your eyes shine LIKE the stars
Simile- comparison using like or as
200
This poet was born in Massachusetts?
Emerson, Thoreau, Plath, Dickinson, Cummings
300
Whose woods are these I think I know, His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Robert Frost
300
Committed suicide at age 30 after her husband left
Sylvia Plath
300
great technical skill or brilliance shown in one's work or performance
bravura
300
The tree spoke to me as I sat under it's arms for protection
personification - giving human qualities to a non-living thing
300
This poet spent time reading poetry and telling stories to soldiers during the Civil War
Walt Whitman
400
Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself
Walt Whitman
400
A key player in the Harlem Renaissance who changed perceptions of African-American art
Langston Hughes
400
A moment of creative impulse or motivation
afflatus
400
A stanza or complete poem made up of four lines
quatrain
400
___________________ was the first poet to win the Pulitzer prize after her death
Sylvia Plath
500
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise
Maya Angelou
500
Name the pets who spoke at presidential inaugurations?
Maya Angelou (pres. Clinton) Robert Frost (J.F.K.)
500
to spread over gradually
seffuse
500
The poem's attitude that the writing style implies (not mood)
Tone
500
Which of Thoreau's poems discusses the idea of a simple life as more rewarding?
Conscience