"The Truly Great"
Define fête
To honor someone or something
Stephen Spender was born in this neighborhood
Kensington, London
As swift as a cheetah
Simile
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,"
"The Road Not Taken"
by Robert Frost
Stephen Spender applauds people that were involved in this type of service
Military service or warfare
Stephen Spender passed away in this neighborhood
St. John’s Wood, London
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
I learned to dance in my mother's kitchen and I got all the secret recipes.
"Mami's Making Mambo"
by Mayda del Valle
These words in the poem were capitalized for personification
Spirit (line 6) and Spring (line 7)
Spender was a part of this political party in 1936
The Communist Party
Buried in a sea of paperwork
Metaphor
Some say the world will end in fire,
"Fire and Ice"
by Robert Frost
In Spender's praise of veterans, he says that their names are celebrated through these types of nature
The waving grass (line 17), the streamers of white cloud (line 18) and the whispers of wind in the listening sky (line 19)
Stephen Spender was this age when he passed away
86-years-old
Once in a blue moon
Idiom
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
"The Raven"
by Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Spender continues sentences beyond one line without any periods or commas, which is this arrangement in poetry
Enjambment
Spender is connected to veterans by what
He was in the London Auxiliary Fire Service during World War I, being a veteran himself
My backpack weighs a ton.
Hyperbole
KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
"Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
by Dr. Seuss