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E. A. Robinson
Robert Frost
John Crowe Ransom
Theodore Roethke and W. H. Auden
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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What traditional form did he use in "Credo"?
Italian Sonnet which has two contrasting sections, one of 8 lines and the next of 6.
100
The setting of most of his poems are from which part of the country?
New England
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Of what group was he a member?
the Fugitives, or Southern Agrarians
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In what 2 groups/types of poetry do his poems typically fall?
Orthodox in form, rational in theme, ironic in tone vs. free in form, bordering on irrational and surrealistic.
100
Where di Millay live that significantly shaped her poetry?
Greenwich village
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From whose perspective do we view Richard Cory in his poem "Richard Cory"?
From the line, "We the people on the pavement," we understand that the perspective is of the townspeople.
200
Most of his poems are about nature, but that focus on what?
Man
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Name 2 themes typically found in his poetry.
Death and the decline of the South after the Civil War
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What is the subject and mood of "Dolor"?
Mood is sad and somber, while the subject is the men whose individuality is swallowed by institutions.
200
What cliche does she use in "Sonnet XXVI"?
Love is blind
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He typically used what 4 traditional forms?
Blank verse, rhyme, meter, sonnet or quatrain
300
"The Road Not Taken" is symbolic of what?
Human choice
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What 3 words have been used to describe his poetry?
unsentimental, tough-minded and penetrating
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Where was Auden born?
England
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What is the main point of "Sonnet XXVI"?
Beauty is irrelevant to love.
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What modern subject did he typically write about?
Human failure
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What 2 activities does he describe in "The Pasture"?
Cleaning out the spring and bringing in the calf
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What is the central contrast in "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"?
The stillness of the dead girl to her once energetic living state
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What phrases indicate that his poem is satire?
"Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard."
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What idea from the 1920s did Millay symbolize?
The liberated woman (feminism)
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What is the main point of "Cassandra"?
Materialism has become a god in America and will eventually destroy her though she has been warned many times.
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What is the main point of his poem, "Birches"?
Frost would like to have times of escape from earth, but also the opportunity to return.
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What words does he use in "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" to create the central contrast?
brown study, primly propped = stillness speed, lightness, took arms, harried, tireless heart = energy
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What does "The Unknown Citizen" mock?
The model citizen that social scientists thought up as part of a welfare driven society
500
What has been your favorite poem so far and why?
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