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Poetry Characteristics and Movements
Literary Periods and Elements
Grab Bag
100
This poet rebelled against conservative values, married the writer of Frankenstein and died by drowning
What is Shelly
100
This poem uses scare tactics as a way to persuade a young mistress to be his partner
What is "To the Virgins..."
100
This type of poetry pays homage to a higher lifestyle, includes themes of carpe diem, and is written in a short, direct manner
What is Cavalier Poetry?
100
This literary time period was generally realistic in nature and dealt with social justice
What is Victorian Poetry?
100
This poem depicts among other things, the passage of time as illustrated by a statue crumbling in the desert?
What is Ozymandias?
200
This brooding poet has an affair with his half sister and was close friends with Shelly
What is Byron
200
This poem assures the poet's mistress that if time were no object, he wouldn't be impatient with her shyness.
What is "To his coy mistress"
200
This type of poem uses witty language with far fetched similes or metaphors and is not lyrically smooth and used in the poem "To His Coy Mistress"
What is Metaphysical Poetry?
200
This literary movement stressed imagination, freedom, nature and emotion.
What is Romanticism?
200
This nature-loving poetry died from catching a cold at the age of 80
Who is Wordsworth?
300
This religious poet wrote many of his poems to imaginary lovers
What is Herrick
300
This poem offers a startling comparison between a woman and a star-filled sky
What is "She Walks In Beauty"
300
This type of poetry highlights the individual and the contrast between innocence of country life versus the corruption of the city
What is Pastoral Poetry?
300
This phrase refers to a rebellious loner male who finds it difficult to overcome events in his past?
What is Byronic Hero?
300
This poem suggests that, despite our best efforts, we all succumb to sorrow
What is Ode to Melancholy?
400
This poet lost his mother, then brother to tuberculosis, and then died of the same before he was 30
What is Keats
400
This conceit poem request that a mistress should succumb to her lover because a creature has already brought them together
What is "The Flea"
400
This is a longer type of poem, usually of a serious nature, utilizes an elevated style and predictable stanzas
What is an Ode?
400
"And now like amorous birds of prey" is an example of what literary device?
What is a Metaphor?
400
"The lone and level sands stretch far away" is an example of what literary device?
What is Alliteration?
500
This poet wrote Greek and Latin poems by age 16 and helped save Milton from rotting in jail.
What is Marvell
500
This poem suggest that even though beauty fades, our emotional attachments are timeless
What is "A Dead Rose"
500
This literary device is a clever, startling extended metaphor with two dissimilar things as used in "The Flea"
What is Conceit?
500
"Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two" is an example of what literary device?
What is a Pun?
500
This poet was very well educated, although he never received a degree, had 12 children and died days after writing his funeral sermon
Who is Donne?