Elementslf Modernist Poetry Flashcards
What was the rhyme scheme of modernist poetry
Sonnets and ballads
How did events turn out in modernist poetry
Expected events almost always turned out to be an illusion, forcing one to deal with the harsh realities of life
What forms of rhymes came out in modernist poetry
Internal rhyme, slant rhyme, or near rhyme
True or false: Modernist poetry had consistent rhyme scheme
False:Inconsistent rhymes Schemes between stanzas is a characteristic of modernist poetry. This technique a limited rhyme and meter and allow poetry to flow naturally. 
What rhyme scheme is used here?
Ah, Douglass, we have fall’n on evil days,
Such days as thou, not even thou didst know, When thee, the eyes of that harsh long ago Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways, And all the country heard thee with amaze.
Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow.
The awful tide that battled to and fro;
We ride amid a tempest of dispraise,
abbabba rhyme scheme
Why did modernist writers use irony
They used irony to show the discrepancies between what is expected and the realities of life.
What is the irony of the poem
“Dear Friends”
The speaker’s friends are judging him saying that he is wasting his life away writing poetry. But the speaker is actually enjoying life much more than his friends are their own lives
What makes a poem a ballad
A ballad is a poem with a musical quality. It is sometimes set to music. A ballad is narrative in nature; this means that it tells a story. Most ballads are written in an ABAB rhyme scheme which means that lines one and three rhyme, and lines two and four rhyme.
What contrast was brought out in the poem “Richard Cory”
“In fine, we thought that he was everything to make us wish we were in his place”
These lines point out that start class B is the difference between the poor who is in the same city. 
The island of the poem Richard Cory
Richard Cory is envied by the town people because he’s super rich and very well dressed. It’s ironic because he seems to have everything, yet he decides to kill himself with no apparent reason. 
Aristocracy
the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
True or false: Moore’s poetry is very untraditional in form
True
Main points of Moore’s “poetry”
- Likens poetry to any other complex idea or natural phenomenon
- it isn’t valid for people to evaluate What they don’t understand
- Each animals actions are natural so people cannot judge them for being unusual different or difficult to understand
Why did Moore call literalists “half poets”
Because she says that they are not true to the language of the imagination and they focus on inconsequential matters.
Poetry should be raw and genuine
What is the main idea of “ we wear the mask”
We wear the mask is written from the African-American communities collective point of view. Dunbar uses this point of view to expose the widespread struggles that African Americans faced.
