Exam 2 Flashcards
1
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No Name Woman
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- by Maxine Hong Kingston
- mom telling narrator how to live, family values
- told a secret story, then writes about it (build bridge/ paper offering to aunt)
- aunt becomes pregnant and family is attacked
- aunt drowns self and baby in well (poisons well)
- narrator imagines aunt’s reasoning for prego
- Kingston shows difficulties choosing individuality (self-reliance)
2
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- by Frederick Douglass
- self made man, “author of own life”
- specific details (establish creditability)
- debunk pop. myths
- loses mother at early age (son of master)
- taught to read for a little, but then master tells him literacy is bad (makes him want to read more)
- tries to escape but fails and sent to shipyard
3
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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- by Harriet Jacobs
- establishes common ground/ similarity (christian, value chastity, American)
- sentimental, emotional narrating (family/ maternalism)
- calls on all women, help their sisters
4
Q
Song of Myself
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- by Walt Whitman
- no particular rhyme or rhythm, free verse
- uses “I” a lot
- repeats first word of sentence for couple lines
- laid back, uses “loafe”
- time to contemplate the grass, focus on present
- erotic/ body talk
- promotes individualism and human divinity
5
Q
39
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- by Emily Dickinson
- uses the dash (-), references “God”
- religious poem
- angles are reimbursed by God (babies?)
- addresses God as her father
6
Q
269
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- by Emily Dickinson
- romantic poetry
- “wild nights” of sexual energy, but also love
- reuniting with a lover, “Heart in port”, “moor in thee”
7
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372
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- by Emily Dickinson
- suffering poems
- describes sense of shock after tragedy (shift to move through life like machine)
- grief can cause death “if hour of lead is outlived”
- pain is like freezing
8
Q
620
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- by Emily Dickinson
- social critique poem
- mad people have the most sense, but are “handled with chain”
- sanity is just “assent” or conforming with society
9
Q
1263
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- by Emily Dickinson
- social critique poem
- tell the truth, but be careful how you tell it
- tell the truth how people want to hear it
- communicate patiently and gradually
10
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A Retrospect
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- by Ezra Pound
- created “imagism”, which wants poetry to affect reader like modern art (liberation, sudden growth)
- explanation/review of the three rules for imagism/what poetry should conform to
1. have an objective
2. only use words that contribute
3. rhyme with musical phrase, not metronome
11
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In a Station of the Metro
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- by Ezra Pound
- 14 words bc every word counts (no unnecessary words)
- “apparition of these faces in crowd; petals on a wet, black bough”
12
Q
Sea Rose
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- by H.D.
- about ugly harsh rose instead of cliché, perfect rose
- “new woman” idea of Modernism
- the wet rose has seen the world and not been sheltered/ coddled (makes it more valuable and stronger)
- most lines end with comma, “you” refers to rose
- first line cap, others lowercase
13
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I being born a woman
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- by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- sonnet, w/every line cap
- usually sonnets are by males about women who wronged them
- she sleeps with a man bc he is there and did not fall in love with him- shocking!! he expects that from a woman
- double standard placed on women and men (chastity, cult of womanhood)
14
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
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- by Wallace Stevens
- poem about sex and a dead woman
- voice speaks in commands
- ice cream = sex “concupiscent curds”, desirable, temporary/ will melt, a treat
- working class w/cigar rollers and “wenches” (working class women)
- sexual desires are still there even after death, “horny feet”
- light is shined on the truth “lamp affix beam”
