Authors Poetry unit Flashcards
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Robert Frost
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1874-1963 American Poet Famous for realistic depiction of rural life, especially in New England Area Won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry “The Road Not Taken” “Fire and Ice” “Birches” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
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William Shakespeare
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1564-1616 Grew up in StratfordUponAvon Known for dramas and tragedies Lyric poet and sonneteer Wrote 154 sonnets Favorite of the monarch
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Emily Dickinson
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Influenced by Shakespeare and the Bible 1830-1886 American Poet Wrote “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” Unique style; random dashes and capitalization Reclusive life Many poems published after she died Died of kidney disease at age 55
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Langston Hughes
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1902-1967
Born in Joplin
“Jazz Age”
Harlem Renaissance
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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1772-1834 English romantic poet “Rhyme or the ancient mariner” “kubla Khan” Lyrical ballads by him and Wordsworth started romantic age Addicted to opium
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Maya Angelou
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American Poet and civil rights activist “I know why the caged bird sings” Pulitzer Prize, national medal of arts, president medal of freedom 1928-2014 Born in St Louis
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E.E. Cummings
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American Poet
“If” “and” “because” as nouns
Unconventional - no rhyme scheme or pattern
Almost wrote 3000 poems
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Billy Collins
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American Poet
Poet Laurreate from 2001 to 2003
Witty
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Petrarch
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Created Italian sonnet (octave and a sestet)
