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"The hurricane does not roar in pentameters."
Edward Kamau Brathwaite
100
Give me back my young brother, hard / and furious, with wide shoulders and a curse / for God and burning eyes that look upon / all creation and say, You can have it.
Philip Levine's "You Can Have it"
100
They shut me up in Prose!
Emily Dickinson
100
Mallarmé referred to the blank (or white) space that appeared in his poetry as "______ ________."
meaningful silence
200
From "The Heresy of Paraphrase:" The structure meant is a structure of meanings, evaluations, and interpretations; and the principle of unity which informs it seems to be one of balancing and harmonizing connotations, attitudes, and meanings.
Cleanth Brooks
200
When linguists writing in the 1920s and 1930s linked the "gl" sound to the movement of light, they were contributing to the now somewhat eccentric field of phonosemantics, which is more commonly known as sound ________ .
sound symbolism
200
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!
Robert Burns's "To a Mouse"
200
Romantic visionary, poet, painter, and engraver.
William Blake
200
A form of thinking that presumes the importance of the everday, the ordinary, the ‘prosaic.’
Prosaics
300
"Let's not kid ourselves. Language-centred writing can be just as easily co-opted by the patriarchy as any other kind."
Bronwen Wallace
300
The french poet Paul Valery once suggested that “[a] _____ is never finished, only abandoned.”
A poem
300
Ah, love, let us be true / To one another! for the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams, / So various, so beautiful, so new, / Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; / And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
300
I was a compulsive liar with a penchant for theoretical physics and spooky, trochaic metres.
Edgar Allan Poe
300
Whereas empiricism tends not to be self-reflexive about the senses, this style of thought examines perception itself as a means of understanding the structures of experience. It is a way of thinking that focuses on lived experience and our perception of it.
Phenomenology
400
"I have never put a toothbrush in a poem."
Silvia Plath
400
In a speech given during her term as poet laureate of Toronto, this Canadian poet described the language of citizenship as "a capacious language, [. ..] a language where we engage and elaborate ideas of equality, social justice, social responsibility, social well being," and where, ultimately, "poetry may live" (1). -Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
400
"It was evening all afternoon. / It was snowing / And it was going to snow. / The blackbird sat / In the cedar-limbs."
Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
400
I was interned in Pisa, Italy during WWII.
Ezra Pound
400
In this kind of poetry, each line can constitute a suggestive unit of meaning, a microcosm of possibilities, a little poem unto itself.
free verse
500
"Culture is ordinary."
Raymond Williams
500
These critics, writing primarily out the American South in the middle decades of the twentieth century, wanted poetry to be enclosed, and self-referential, aesthetic object.
The New Critics (New Criticism)
500
"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, / The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, / Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, / And after many a summer dies the swan. / Me only cruel immortality / Consumes..."
Tennyson's "Tithonus"
500
I built a stone tower overlooking the Pacific, where I wrote about the "darkness and silence" of the night sky.
Robinson Jeffers
500
We use this phrase to describe this poet's belief that poetry should be the spontaneous overflow of emotions recollected in tranquility.
The Wordsworthian Prescription