American Poets
She wrote "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
What is explication?
He wrote sonnets and sometimes included them in his plays at the Globe Theater.
Who is William Shakspeare?
What is a couplet?
This Academy Award winning actor played Mr. Keating.
Who is Robin Williams?
This Robert Frost poem is sometimes believed to be about Santa Claus in the forest on a winter's night.
What is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
Robert Frost is known for defining poetry as the best words in the best order, also known as these two poetry terms.
What are Diction and Syntax?
He not only wrote poems such as "The Tyger," he created illustrations too!
Who is William Blake?
What is free verse?
One of the male characters pretends to have written "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," an example of this type of poem.
What is a sonnet?
The play title "A Raisin in the Sun" comes from this poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Sylvia Plath's "Mirror" speaker is an example of this term denoting human characteristics in non-human things.
What is anthropomorphism?
His poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be" explores the sad fact that he was dying of tuberculosis at the young age of 25.
Who is John Keats?
A poem of mourning / loss.
What is an elegy?
Todd Anderson is played by this actor who who also appeared in Training day, Boyhood, and most recently Blue Moon.
Who is Ethan Hawke?
He was nicknamed the Good Gray Poet.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Writing about the sun and the moon in the same poem is a basic example of this poetic term.
What is Antithesis?
His wife wrote Frankenstein.
Who is Percy Shelley?
Robert Herrick's line of poetry says, "Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May," an example of this Latin phrase.
What is Carpe Diem?
Neil's character auditions for this Shakespearean comedy.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
When Edgar Allen Poe describes a "jealous wind" this is an example of what type of personification?
What is Pathetic Fallacy?
This is similar to alliteration, but it involves the repetition of vowel sounds (instead of consponants).
What is assonance?
Christina Rossetti wrote this monstrous poem about two sisters tempted by forbidden fruit.
What is "The Goblin Market"?
Wordsworth and Coleridge collabrated on this groundbreaking book of poetry, named after musical styled stanzas.
What is Lyrical Ballads?
To "Suck the marrow out of life" is a mantra written by this author of Walden.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?