Places in Poetry
In his masterwork "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Dylan Thomas laments how "frail deeds might have danced" in one of these body of water features.
This celebrated American civil rights activist and poet wrote the inspiring collections And Still I Rise and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
This traditional Japanese poetic form consists of three unrhymed lines with a syllable structure of 5-7-5.
Haiku
Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" is famously inscribed on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal of this New York Harbor monument.
The Statue of Liberty
This 20th-century Welsh poet wrote "Do not go gentle into that good night," using a strict villanelle form to urge his dying father to resist death.
Dylan Thomas
This famous 14-line poetic form typically uses iambic pentameter and a 10-syllable structure per line.
Sonnet
Carl Sandburg opened a famous 1914 poem naming this midwestern city as the "Hog Butcher for the World" and "Stacker of Wheat."
Chicago
Every New Year's Eve, people around the world sing "Auld Lang Syne," a song based on a 1788 poem written by this beloved national poet of Scotland.
Robert Burns
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in closely positioned words, such as "silently, softly soaring."
Alliteration
In the opening stanza of Poe's "The Raven," the narrator is sitting in this specific room of his house at midnight when he hears a tapping.
Chamber
This Confessional poetry pioneer won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for her Collected Poems, which includes deeply raw pieces like "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus."
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath utilized this device in her poem "Mirror" by letting the glass speak the opening line: "I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions."
Personification
It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about “the mountains …covered with snow…the straths & green valleys below”
Highlands
Alongside Sylvia Plath, this author studied under Robert Lowell at Boston University, with both becoming pioneering figures of the Confessional poetry movement.
Anne Sexton
Traditionally written in alternating hexameter and pentameter lines, this genre serves as a solemn, formal lamentation for the dead.
Elegy