Poetry Terms
This figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' — for example, calling a poem 'a globed fruit.'
What is JAZZ?
unfiltered, spontaneous writing technique designed to capture the raw, non-linear flow of human thought & perception
What is STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Confessional poets use this literary device which involves the inclusion of raw, sensory detail -- in order to create "mental pictures" of their private lives for the reader.
What is IMAGERY?
This is the "beat" or tempo of a poem, often created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is RHYTHM / METER?
This figure of speech compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as' — as in 'a poem should be silent as the sleeve-worn stone.'
Key Harlem renaissance poet who said he tried to write poems 'like the songs they sang on Seventh Street... like a piano jumping in my throat.'
Who is LANGSTON HUGHES?
Poetry written with no rhythm or regular meter.
What is FREE VERSE?
Confessional poetry often focused on the daily life and struggles of this "domestic" role, which was previously ignored by the male-dominated art world.
What is HOUSEWIFE
In her famous poem "Her Kind," Anne Sexton compares the speaker to this figure of a social outcast who was often "hunted" in history
What is a WITCH?
What is a STANZA?
Langston Huge's famous poem claims that his soul has grown deep like . . .
What are RIVERS?
What are psychedelic drugs / LSD?
The women writing confessional poetry were aligned with this political and social movement for women's rights.
What is FEMINISM?
These are the key male figures of the beat poets movement
Who are Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
When a line of poetry continues across a line break without punctuation, creating a 'spilling over' effect.
This central element of jazz involves musicians inventing melodies in the moment rather than reading from a fixed score.
What is IMPROVISATION?
Because they lived outside of mainstream rules and traditions, the Beats are considered the fathers of this "C" word movement.
What is COUNTERCULTURE?
These are the two key female figures of the confessional poetry movement.
Who are Anne Sexton + Sylvia Plath?
Placing two opposite or very different things side-by-side to show their contrast.
What is JUXTAPOSITION?
This is the term for a pause WITHIN a line of poetry.
This is a musical term which to a time displacement that causes a rhythm to sound off beat in relation to the underlying rhythm by placing emphasis on the unexpected parts of a regular flow
What is SYNCOPATION?
Many Beat writers looked to the "East" for peace, often incorporating the beliefs of this religion into their poems.
These are TWO topics that concerned second wave feminists.
What is REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, WORKPLACE EQUALITY, MARRAIGE, MENTAL ILLNESS, CHILDBIRTH, DOMESTIC LABOR, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 'PRIVATE' LIFE
This is the Latin phrase that titles Archibald MacLeish's 1926 poem and means 'Art of Poetry' — a poem about what poetry itself should be and do.
What is ARS POETICA