The Stanza
Who is William Blake?
This author wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."
Who is Dylan Thomas?
The poem “Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni" describes the woman using this kind of imagery.
What is cold/nature imagery?
This poet wrote "How do I love thee, let me count the ways."
Who is Elizabeth Browning?
This poem ends with the line "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
What is "Ulysses"?
The author wrote "The Tyger" on this theme.
What is the conflict between good and evil?
The refrain line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light " comes from this villanelle.
What is "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?
This poet wrote “Sestina: Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni."
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This poet wrote the following verse:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This poet wrote "Ulysses."
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
The stanzas of "Easter Wings" contain this unique feature.
What is shaped like wings?
This poet wrote "One Art."
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
This troubadour was the legendary creator of the sestina.
Who is Arnaut?
This poet wrote a poem about turning twenty-three years old.
Who is John Milton?
"Ulysses" is written in this person.
What is first person?
"Easter Wings" is about this.
What is the poet's resurrection in Christ?
The second refrain line of this villanelle was altered in each repetition.
What is "One Art"?
A sestina contains this many repeating lines.
What is six?
John Donne uses this literary device in his sonnet about death?
What is personification?
Blank verse is most often used in these subgenres.
What are dramatic monologue and epic poetry?
Who is George Herbert?
What is a loved one?
This poet wrote a sestina about the history of the sestina.
Who is Sir Edmund Gosse?
Shakespeare ultimately praises this in his Sonnet 18.
What is his own skill as a poet?
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?