Poets
Which author wrote a poem to his son giving advice about growing up?
Rudyard Kipling
The Representation through language of the five senses.
Imagery
Which poem celebrates the seasons?
To Autumn bu John Keats
What is the meaning of this line:
"If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,"
At some point someone will take your words and twist them, but you must keep on with your life and not let their lies get you off course.
Name the poem from which this line comes:
"To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,"
To Autumn by John Keats
Which poet is considered one of early America's most influential poets?
Walt Whitman
What is an overstatement used to stress a point a million times!
Hyperbole
Which poem seems to question God's Creation?
The Tyger by William Blake
What is the meaning of these lines?
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
People can be mean and want others to feel "less than." They use words and actions to make another feel worse. She is asking a rhetorical question to the culture at large: Is this what you wanted me to feel? to be?
Name the poem from which this line comes:
"The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the
ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?"
Miracles by Walt Whitman
Which author came to America in the 1600's and was the colonies first published poet.
Anne Bradstreet
Concurrance of similar or identical sounds within different words.
Rhyme
Which poem urges students to take advantage of what had been given to them?
To The University of Cambridge by Philis Wheatley
What is the meaning of these lines?
"Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place."
Whitman is describing how all the earth works together and yet each miracle of creation (sundown, stars, moon...)is distinct and exactly where God meant them to be.
From which poem do these lines come?
"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness"
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Who was an English Romantic Lyric Poet?
John Keats
A line of poetry consisting of five iambic feet
Iambic Pentameter
Which poem emotionally connects the author to the work as if to a well loved child?
An Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
What do these lines mean?
"Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view"
She sees her work as her child and is really proud of her work but kind of has to pretend that she is not. In a broader sense she is showing how difficult it was at the time for a woman poet to be accepted and how much control a female author had (or didn't have) over her own work.
Name the poem from which these lines come:
"Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
The Tyger by William Blake
Which English Romantic poet was also a printmaker and a painter?
William Blake
A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part, e.g. in the phrase "All hands on deck," hands stand for people.
Metonymy
Which poem helps us understand that we have the power within us to get up and keep going?
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?"
Blake is pondering the creation of a God who could make something so fierce and yet so beautiful with perfect symmetrical stripes.
Name the Poem from which these lines come:
While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,
The muses promise to assist my pen;
'Twas not long since I left my native shore
The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom:
Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand
Brought me in safety from those dark abodes.
To the University of Cambridge by Philis Wheatley