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Mid Century Quiz Flashcards

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Who wrote Paean to Place?

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Lorine Niedecker

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Who wrote Not Waving but Drowning

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Stevie Smith

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Who wrote Thoughts about the Person from Porlock?

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Stevie Smith

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Who wrote Casabianca?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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Who wrote Chemin de Fir?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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Who wrote First Death in Nova Scotia?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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Who wrote One Art?

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Elizabeth Bishop

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Who wrote We Real Cool?

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Who wrote What Were They Like?

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Denise Levertov

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Who wrote Sylvia’s Death?

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Anne Sexton

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Who wrote The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator?

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Anne Sexton

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Who wrote Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

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Adrienne Rich

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Who wrote A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?

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Adrienne Rich

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Who wrote Ariel?

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Sylvia Plath

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Who wrote Daddy?

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Sylvia Plath

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Who wrote Lady Lazarus?

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Sylvia Plath

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Who wrote Hanging Fire?

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Audre Lorde

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Who wrote miss Rosie?

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Lucille Clifton

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Who wrote the lost baby poem?

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Lucille Clifton

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Who wrote wishes for sons?

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Lucille Clifton

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What is Not Waving but Drowning about?

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Gesture patters
Trying to be seen by others bug always misunderstood
Social isolation - dying inside kind of feel

22
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What is Paean to Place about?

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Mix of nature and divorce
Nature is an escape
Nature and books helped her escape the life

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What is Casabianca about?

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Boy who died with his father in the Battle of the Nile
You can’t be stubborn with love and understand when it is time to move on
Boy died because he didn’t want to leave his dad

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What is One Art about?

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It isnt hard to master the hard of losing - disaster
Instructions to fake it till you make it
What all she has lost, cities, watch, keys - from minor to major things

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What is We Real Cool about?

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Teenagers wanting to be cool
Lifestyle will led to death or addiction
Jazz June Die Soon

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What is What Were They Like about?

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The Vietnam War
Don’t know how the people are because they are all dead
(Bombs - b, m, s, sounds)

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What is Sylvia’s Death about?

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Death and talking about breakups
How Sylvia left her after all their talk of suicide and dying together

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What is Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

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Tigers aren’t afraid of anything and women shouldn’t be either
Burden of marriage

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What is A Valediction Forbidding Mourning about?

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Ways to avoid mourning
A lot of literary devices mentioned
Dying in your own way and accepting death that everyone goes through it

30
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What is Ariel about?

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Name given to horse
Not able to hold onto horses neck
The sunrise
Flying down into hell

31
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What is Daddy about?

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Plath wrote about her father
Compare herself to a Jew and her dad to a Nazi
A lot of you and I

32
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What is Lady Lazarus about?

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Dying. Objective - powerful for her - each time of trying to die
A lot of inhuman things happening in this one
Simile to 9 lives of a cat

33
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What is Hanging Fire about?

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How race has affected her life being African American
Younger generations speak up about injustice
“Mommas in the bedroom with the door closed”

34
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What is miss Rosie about?

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Power behind the woman who is poor, watching a poor woman and her life from being a rich woman

35
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What is the lost baby poem about?

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Mother apologizing to her unborn child
They were a poor family
Promise to never be a bad mom to the other children

36
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What is confessional poetry?

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“We’re going to talk about everything”
Difficult, taboo (need to confess)
I = poet

37
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Who wrote the film Sweetie?

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Campion

38
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Who wrote the film Nicky and Mikey?

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May

39
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ID author: with two children, two meteors, wandering loose in a tiny playroom

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Anne Sexton

40
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ID author: I was ten when they buried you, at twenty I tried to die, and get back back back to you

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Sylvia Plath

41
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ID title: it was her tree. She wouldn’t let me up it

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Sweetie

42
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At the end of Mickey and Nicky, Mikey dies

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False

43
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ID title: I was much too far out all my life

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Not Waving but Drowning

44
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ID author: and love’s the burning boy

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Elizabeth Bishop

45
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The lines, “And love’s the burning boy” and “Love should be put into action appear in the same poem

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False

46
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The lines, “And loves the burning boy” and “Love should be put into action” were written by the same author

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True

47
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The art of losing is what?

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Not hard to master and no disaster

48
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Which poets are called confessional?

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Sexton and Plath

49
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What is an exaggeration to make a point?

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Hyperbole

50
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What is Sweetie about?

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Kay and her sister Sweetie’s life
The tree reference
Sweetie dies
Kay is very by the book with her life - believes in fate

51
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What is Mikey and Nicky about?

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Nicky needs help from Mikey who is like a voice of reason to him
Mikey takes Nicky all over town to get him killed by the hit man
Nell gets abused by the boys at her apartment
Nicky goes to see his wife and his kid
Nicky goes to Mikey’s house and he doesn’t let him in
Nicky gets blown to shreds

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