Whitman's World
Walt Whitman, a famous poet from this country, wrote many works, including "O Me! O Life!" and "O Captain! My Captain!"
United States of America
While not directly written in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," this Latin phrase embodies the theme of the poem, directly translating to _______.
(Give the phrase and the translation)
Carpe Diem; "Seize the Day"
This poetic device compares two things using the words like and as.
Simile
In lines 15-16 of "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," the poet writes, "For having lost but once your prime, / you may forever tarry." To tarry means to do this.
Linger; Loiter
This fictional character within the film Dead Poets Society is credited with being the inspiration for numerous English teachers.
Mr. Keating
In "O Captain! My Captain!," Whitman compares the captain of a ship to this United States president.
Abraham Lincoln
Written by this poet, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" describes a philosophy of how to live one's life.
Robert Herrick
Frequently used in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," this poetic device ascribes human characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
In lines 14-15 of "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time," the poet writes, "Then be not coy, but use your time, / And while ye may, go marry;" To be coy means to be this.
Shy; Bashful
This "everyday" writing contains constructs such as sentences and paragraphs.
In "O Me! O Life!," the speaker asks what the point of life is before answering their own question with this.
"That you are here - that life exists, and identity; / That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse."
In the last words in lines 4 through 8 of "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," sun, a-getting, run, and, setting, create two examples of this type of rhyme.
Exact Rhyme
This type of rhyme occurs when two words have similar rhyming structures, but are not exact matches.
Slant Rhyme
In line 5 of "O Me! O Life!", Whitman writes, "Of the poor results of all - of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;" When Whitman describes these crowds as sordid, he is saying the crowds are this.
Dirty; Of Poor Character
The Civil War, which culminated in the death of president Abraham Lincoln and inspired Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!," occurred in this range of years.
1861 - 1865
In "O Captain! My Captain!," the "swaying mass" with eager faces is representative of this part of post-Civil War America.
The American People who Celebrate the End to the Civil War.
While not as relatable for many modern cultures, the speaker in "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" urges the reader to do this one thing before they get too old.
Marry
While a typical metaphor creates a direct comparison between two dissimilar things, this similar poetic device establishes that comparison and carries it throughout the entirety of a work.
Extended Metaphor
Walt Whitman is considered one of the most celebrated poets in the canon of American literature. To be a part of a canon means to be a part of this.
A collection of something
This type of poetry, which mourns the loss of those who have died, describes Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
Elegy
Pertaining to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's theoretical five stages of grief, this stage is represented in the last few lines of the second stanza in "O Captain! My Captain!"
Denial
With four stanzas, each containing four lines, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" follows this rhyme scheme.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
This poetic device is used in both "O Captain! My Captain!" and "Elegy for JFK" to draw emphasis to the most important stanza or lines of the poems.
Repetition
In the poem, "O Me! O Life!," the speaker claims they "forever reproach" themself. To reproach someone or something means to do this.
Express Disapproval
Just as prose contains distinct sections of text in the form of sentences and paragraphs, poetry has similar, comparable, sections referred to as _____ and ______.