American poets Flashcards
What long poem, which begins ”I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,” was written by Allen Ginsberg, a member of the “Beat Generation”?
Howl
Howl
Alan Ginsberg
What “Fireside Poet” wrote the long work The Song of Hiawatha, inspired by Native American mythology?
Henry Longfellow
What poet praised the “City of the Big Shoulders” in his poem “Chicago”?
Carl Sandburg
What poet described sounding his “barbaric yawp” in his poem “Song of Myself”?
Walt Whitman
What 19th-century American poet wrote “Thanatopsis” and “To a Waterfowl”?
William Bryant
What poet’s unusual punctuation and capitalization are on display in “anyone lived in a pretty how town”?
E. E. Cummings
The two-line poem “In a Station of the Metro” was written by what Modernist and Imagist poet, who also wrote the Cantos?
Ezra Pound
Poem meaning Death in a natural part of life
Thanatopsis
What African-American poet from Chicago wrote the poem “We Real Cool”?
Gwendolyn Brooks
What 20th-century poet wrote the collection Harmonium, which contains “Sunday Morning” and “The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams wrote that “so much depends upon” what object, which is “beside the white chickens”?
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
Poet Joyce Kilmer wrote “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as” what natural object?
A Tree
Trees
Joyce Kilmer
Robert Lowell wrote a poem set in Boston titled for the “dead” of an army that fought what war?
Civil War
For the Union Dead
Robert Lowell
Colonial poet Anne Bradstreet’s major collection is titled for what figure “lately sprung up in America”?
The Tenth Muse
The Tenth Muse
Anne Bradstreet
