Poetry Terms
Much like a song
Ballad
Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son" shows what theme?
advice from a parent to keep going and pushing through bad times
depression and anxiety
Emily Dickenson
both born in 1809
Eliot's poem inspired a Broadway play called...
CATS
5, 7, 5
Haiku
Emily's poem "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" theme is what?
Wishing you could change your life
wrote about slavery
Langston Hughes
What inspired Tennyson's most famous poem
friend's death
What were themes of Blake's poems (the big questions)?
the big questions: why is there evil? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad people prosper?
Humorous poem
limerick
Frost's "Road Not Taken" is about...
choices
did not publish many poems in their lifetime
Emily
What were themes of Tennyson's poems
history, myths, faith vs. science, self doubt
Why is Frost easy to understand?
He uses common language
A poem that does not rhyme
free verse
Blake's "Lamb" and "Tyger" were about...
Langston Hughes was inspired by what time period?
Harlem Renaissance
What were themes of Poe's writing?
death
Themes of Eliot's poems were...
rejuvenation, death and rebirth, nature (barren) and lack of faith
What do poems convey?
a life lesson or emotion
Poe's "The Raven" had a theme of what?
lost love, how to cope with losing a loved one
Why was Emily not well-thought of in her lifetime?
out of the box thinker (especially for a woman of her time), introvert, unique writing style
Why was Tennyson known as the greatest poet of his time and not Poe?
Your life choices matter, Tennyson was more well-liked because he was nicer
Themes from Frost's poems are...
natural world, life lesson from the simple things in nature