Authors

Question 1

Themes: mans isolation from universe or alienation from environment, human limitation, death, affirmation, love, rationality vs imagination, dramatic struggles within nature( talks a lot about landscape of New England)

Answer 1

Robert frost

Question 2

Style: diction: uses words to would use in everyday conversation, were about nature, writes sentences with meter and rhythm, uses many poetic devices in poetry, wrote about everyday events with metaphorical extensions, straightforward verse style, the sound of sense: the poetic belief system in which the sound of poetry is as important to the overall work as the actual words

Answer 2

Robert frost

Question 3

4 out of 6 kids died
Death of wife left a large impact on him
Last years of life led him to depression

Answer 3

Robert frost

Question 4

Most famous works: Stepping by wood on a snowy evening 
The road not taken
Fire and ice 
Nothing golden can stay 
Mending wall

Answer 4

Robert frost

Question 5

Collections: New Hampshire: 1924 p prize
Collected poems 1931 p prize
Further range 1937 p prize
A witness tree 1943 p prize

Answer 5

Robert frost

Question 6

Lit period: modernism 
Wrote poetry 
Nationality: American 
Born in San Francisco died in Boston 
Married his co-valedictorian elinor white 
Had 6 kids

Answer 6

Robert frost

Question 7

Spent first 11 yrs of life in San Francisco
Moved to Lawrence Massachusetts with sister and mom after dad’s death
Attended Lawrence high where met future wife
Became interested in reading and writing poetry
Graduated high school in 1892 and then attended Dartmouth university

Answer 7

Robert frost

Question 8

Went Harvard but never got a formal degree

Was a teacher, cobbler, and editor of St. Lawrence sentinel

Answer 8

Robert frost

Question 9

Nov. 8 1894 1st published poem “my butterfly and elegy” appeared in the Independent

1912: moved to England

Answer 9

Robert frost

Question 10

Was influenced by poets such as ed Thomas, rupert brook, and Graves

Ezra pound promoted his works

1915: retuned to America with 2 published collections: “a boys will” and “ a Boston nation”

Answer 10

Robert frost

Question 11

1916: bought farm
Taught for 45yrs at Dartmouth, university of Michigan, and Amherst
Spent summers at middlebury teaching English
Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1924,1931,1937,1943

Answer 11

Robert frost

Question 12

1938: wife died
1961: asked to write and recite poem at inauguration of JFK at 86 yrs old
1963: jan 9, died of complications of prostate surgery

Answer 12

Robert frost

Question 13

Themes:odd mixtures if irony and compassion towards subjects
Independent relationships and hardships
often involved romance
Drama

Answer 13

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 14

Style: early works: villanelle and rondeau
Later works: blank verse
Sonnet
Dramatic monologue

Answer 14

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 15

His parents wanted a girl so they didn’t name until after 6 months he had been born cause they were mad

His mothers friend named him because she was mad he didn’t have a name

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 16

Menin: 1917
Lancelot: 1920 
Tristam: 1927
Collected poems: 1922
The man who died twice: 1924

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 17

“Man against the sky” 1916: first major success

Composed a trilogy based on Arthurian legends that won a Pulitzer Prize

Answer 17

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 18

Born in head tide Maine
Died NYC 1935
Family moved to Gardner Maine which is setting to majority of poems
Childhood was described as stark and unhappy: hates name and is why he goes by EA and he felt older than people his age

Answer 18

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 19

Had 2 brothers: one was alcoholic other was drug addict

Attended Harvard for two yrs

One poem was published in Harvard literary journal

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 20

Last 25 yrs if life, spent summers at McDowell colony of artists and musicians in Peterborough, New Hampshire
Never married, lived a solitary lifestyle

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 21

At Harvard, father died, stayed to help farms but later left because his love rejected him

His love rejected him twice and then she married his brother

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 22

Moved to NY and published first book “the torrent of the night” but was rewritten as “children of the night” (1897)

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 23

Not gaining immediate attention, worked as an inspector for the NY subway system

While working he wrote Captain Craig and other poems (1902)

President Roosevelt read this and gave him a sinecure in a US customs house

Dedicated his next poem “the town down in the river” to Roosevelt

Answer 23

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Question 24

Greek dramatist
Born 406 bc in colonus
Father owned a business that made armor and were wealthy
Active citizen who had many talents
16yrs. Old: chosen to lead the paean: a chant to god celebrating the Greeks beating the Persians at the Battle of Salamis
Died: 406 bc

Answer 24

Sophocles

Question 25

Actor, poet, author, and producer
Won his first dramatic competition in 468 bc
Wrote 120 dramas but only 7 survived
Won about 20 first places in Athenian drama competitions

Answer 25

Sophocles

Question 26

7 writings left but 3 were most famous 
Oedipus the king 
Oedipus at colonus 
Antigone
Ajax 
The women of trachis 
Electra 
Philocetes

Answer 26

Sophocles

Question 27

Style: trilogies 
No punctuation 
Iambic pentameter 
Rhyming couplets 
Dramatic irony

Answer 27

Sophocles

Question 28

Themes: morality 
Religion 
A persons decision and the fate of the things
Wisdom
Arrogance 
Pride and wrongdoing 
Moderation

Answer 28

Sophocles