Ideas in Poetry
This poet sought to express his own personality.
Who was Walt Whitman?
This genre is used to celebrate something or someone.
What is an ode?
Hope is the thing with feathers
What poem was written by Emily Dickinson?
New England
What did Robert Frost frequently reference?
Emily Dickinson used this style, defined by alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
What is hymn meter?
This poet was defined as a Modernist, as he wanted to break from the past and find a truly modern means of writing poetry.
Who was Ezra Pound?
This genre has 14 lines and a volta, and was used frequently by Shakespeare, John Keats, and even Edgar Allan Poe.
What is a sonnet?
Mending Wall
What poet was written by Robert Frost?
Nature and botany
What did Emily Dickinson frequently reference in her poems?
This poet had a focus on precise meter and rhyme, with every word in its place.
Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
This poet addressed American history and became a staple of American culture.
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This genre has 19 lines and uses 5 tercets and 1 quatrain.
**What is a villanelle?**
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
What poem was written by John Keats?
Greece and Rome
What did John Keats frequently reference in his poems?
Walt Whitman pioneered this style, which was defined by a lack of meter and rhyme.
What is free verse?
This poet used her poems to express pain and the feeling of opression.
Who was Sylvia Plath?
This genre is used to tell a story, often with a sing-song pattern.
What is a ballad?
Annabel Lee
What poem was written by Edgar Allan Poe?
The Orient
William Carlos Williams utilized this style, which brought together two opposing ideas and used surprising descriptions to subvert expectations.
What is counterpoint?
This poet was a Transcendentalist, and wanted to expand his readers' perspectives beyond the constraints of an American society by introducing them to ideas from the Far East.
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This genre has 39 lines split into 6 sestets and 1 tercet.
What is a sestina?
The Arrow and the Song
What poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Mysticism and the occult
What did Edgar Allen Poe reference?
This poet experimented with typography to change the way poems were physically typed onto the page.
Who was E.E. Cummings?