Walt Whitman
helped wounded soldiers during this war
Civil War
traveled out West and lived as a hobo
Carl Sandburg
How did this person live?
She lived alone and avoided people.
What was the inspiration for this poet?
American rural life
What group did this poet mainly write for?
African Americans
In the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!" written by Whitman, the captain is referring to which historical leader?
Abraham Lincoln
In the poem "Chicago" written by Sandburg, what literary device is mainly used?
personfication
How many poems did this poet write in a few decades?
approx. 2,000
What career did this poet once have?
farmer
In Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son" what is the main literary device being used?
metaphor
advocate for these two groups
African Americans and women
grew up in which Illinois town
Galesburg
Main source of inspiration for this poet
death
In Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking", the ladder, the barrel, and the apples are all examples of?
symbolism
How did this poet die?
cancer
the name of Whitman's breakout poetry book
Leaves of Grass
What feeling does the speaker have in the poem, "Chicago"?
What type of figurative language is mainly used in the poem, "I'm Nobody-Who Are You?"
simile
In Robert Frost's poem "After Apple-Picking", the ladder that the speaker is referring to is leading to...
death
Harlem Renaissance
poems are based on the notion of
"universal brotherhood"
What war did Sandburg fight in?
Spanish American
In what point of view is "I'm Nobody-Who Are You? told in?
1st
John F. Kennedy
What poem made this poet famous?
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"