Poetry - (10% of Exam) Flashcards
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Key Figure
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Homer
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Time Period: Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Contribution: Author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, foundational works of Western literature.
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Sappho
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Time Period: Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry
Contribution: A Greek poet known for her passionate and personal poetry, often about love and women.
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Virgil
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Time Period: Ancient Roman Epic Poetry
Contribution: Author of The Aeneid, Rome’s national epic, modeled after Homer’s works.
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Ovid
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Time Period: Ancient Roman Poetry
Contribution: Known for Metamorphoses, a mythological epic with stories of transformation.
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Dante Alighieri
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Time Period: Medieval Italian Poetry
Contribution: Wrote The Divine Comedy, depicting a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Time Period: Medieval English Poetry
Contribution: Author of The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by pilgrims.
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Petrarch
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Time Period: Renaissance Italian Poetry
Contribution: A key figure in the development of the sonnet, influencing later poets like Shakespeare.
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Edmund Spenser
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Time Period: Elizabethan Poetry
Contribution: Known for The Faerie Queene, an allegorical epic celebrating Queen Elizabeth I.
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William Shakespeare
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Time Period: Elizabethan Poetry
Contribution: Wrote 154 sonnets exploring themes of love, time, and beauty.
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John Donne
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Time Period: Metaphysical Poetry
Contribution: Known for his complex metaphysical conceits in poems like Death Be Not Proud.
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Andrew Marvell
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Time Period: Metaphysical Poetry
Contribution: Wrote To His Coy Mistress, a carpe diem poem urging love before time runs out.
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John Milton
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Time Period: 17th Century Epic Poetry
Contribution: Author of Paradise Lost, an epic on the fall of man and Satan’s rebellion.
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Alexander Pope
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Time Period: 18th Century Satirical Poetry
Contribution: Famous for The Rape of the Lock, a mock-epic satirizing aristocratic vanity.
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William Blake
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Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Contribution: Known for Songs of Innocence and Experience, exploring innocence and corruption.
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William Wordsworth
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Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Contribution: Co-author of Lyrical Ballads and known for Tintern Abbey, celebrating nature.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Contribution: Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a supernatural sea voyage.
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Lord Byron
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Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Contribution: Wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and developed the Byronic hero archetype.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Contribution: Author of Ozymandias, a poem about the impermanence of power.
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John Keats
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Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Contribution: Famous for odes like Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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Walt Whitman
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Time Period: American Transcendentalist Poetry
Contribution: Wrote Leaves of Grass, celebrating democracy and the human spirit.
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Emily Dickinson
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Time Period: 19th Century American Poetry
Contribution: Known for short, enigmatic poems exploring death and nature.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Time Period: Gothic Poetry
Contribution: Wrote The Raven, a haunting narrative poem about loss and madness.
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Robert Browning
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Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Contribution: Master of the dramatic monologue, author of My Last Duchess.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Contribution: Known for *Sonnets from the Portuguese*, including *How Do I Love Thee?*.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Contribution: Author of *The Charge of the Light Brigade* and *Ulysses*.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Contribution: Innovated with 'sprung rhythm' in poems like *Pied Beauty*.
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Thomas Hardy
Time Period: Late Victorian Poetry
Contribution: Wrote pessimistic poetry like *The Darkling Thrush*.
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W.B. Yeats
Time Period: Modernist Poetry
Contribution: Known for *The Second Coming* and *Sailing to Byzantium*.
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T.S. Eliot
Time Period: Modernist Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *The Waste Land*, a fragmented reflection on post-war disillusionment.
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Ezra Pound
Time Period: Modernist Poetry
Contribution: Promoted Imagism and wrote *The Cantos*.
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Robert Frost
Time Period: 20th Century American Poetry
Contribution: Known for *The Road Not Taken* and *Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening*.
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Langston Hughes
Time Period: Harlem Renaissance Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *The Negro Speaks of Rivers*, celebrating Black heritage.
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Claude McKay
Time Period: Harlem Renaissance Poetry
Contribution: Author of *If We Must Die*, an anthem of Black resistance.
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Dylan Thomas
Time Period: 20th Century Welsh Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night*, a villanelle about death.
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Pablo Neruda
Time Period: 20th Century Chilean Poetry
Contribution: Known for *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair*.
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Sylvia Plath
Time Period: Confessional Poetry
Contribution: Author of *Ariel* and *Daddy*, exploring personal trauma.
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Anne Sexton
Time Period: Confessional Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *Live or Die*, addressing mental illness and womanhood.
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Allen Ginsberg
Time Period: Beat Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *Howl*, an anti-establishment manifesto of the 1950s.
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Maya Angelou
Time Period: Contemporary American Poetry
Contribution: Known for *And Still I Rise*, celebrating Black resilience.
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Seamus Heaney
Time Period: 20th Century Irish Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *Digging*, exploring identity and Irish heritage.
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Derek Walcott
Time Period: Caribbean Poetry
Contribution: Author of *Omeros*, a modern epic inspired by Homer.
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Rita Dove
Time Period: Contemporary American Poetry
Contribution: Pulitzer Prize winner known for *Thomas and Beulah*.
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Margaret Atwood
Time Period: Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Contribution: Wrote *Morning in the Burned House*, exploring feminist themes.
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Louise Glück
Time Period: Contemporary American Poetry
Contribution: Winner of the Nobel Prize, known for *The Wild Iris*.
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Tracy K. Smith
Time Period: Contemporary American Poetry
Contribution: Former U.S. Poet Laureate, author of *Life on Mars*.
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Joy Harjo
Time Period: Contemporary Native American Poetry
Contribution: The first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, known for *An American Sunrise*.
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Ocean Vuong
Time Period: Contemporary Vietnamese-American Poetry
Contribution: Author of *Night Sky with Exit Wounds*, exploring war, love, and identity.
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*The Iliad*
Author: Homer
Title: *The Iliad*
Time Period: Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Synopsis: An epic poem about the Trojan War, focusing on the wrath of Achilles and the consequences of pride and heroism.
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*The Odyssey*
Author: Homer
Title: *The Odyssey*
Time Period: Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Synopsis: A journey of the hero Odysseus as he attempts to return home after the Trojan War, encountering mythical creatures and divine obstacles.
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*Ode to Aphrodite*
Author: Sappho
Title: *Ode to Aphrodite*
Time Period: Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry
Synopsis: A personal invocation to the goddess of love, seeking help in matters of romance.
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*The Aeneid*
Author: Virgil
Title: *The Aeneid*
Time Period: Ancient Roman Epic Poetry
Synopsis: A national epic telling the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who journeys to found Rome, embodying Roman virtues.
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*Metamorphoses*
Author: Ovid
Title: *Metamorphoses*
Time Period: Ancient Roman Poetry
Synopsis: A collection of mythological tales centered on themes of transformation and change.
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*The Divine Comedy*
Author: Dante Alighieri
Title: *The Divine Comedy*
Time Period: Medieval Italian Poetry
Synopsis: A vision of the afterlife, following the poet’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
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*The Canterbury Tales*
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Title: *The Canterbury Tales*
Time Period: Medieval English Poetry
Synopsis: A collection of stories told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, reflecting medieval society.
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*Canzoniere*
Author: Petrarch
Title: *Canzoniere*
Time Period: Renaissance Italian Poetry
Synopsis: A collection of sonnets exploring themes of love and devotion, often dedicated to Laura.
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*The Faerie Queene*
Author: Edmund Spenser
Title: *The Faerie Queene*
Time Period: Elizabethan Poetry
Synopsis: An allegorical epic celebrating Queen Elizabeth I, filled with chivalric adventures and moral lessons.
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*Sonnets*
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: *Sonnets*
Time Period: Elizabethan Poetry
Synopsis: 154 sonnets exploring love, time, mortality, and beauty.
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*Holy Sonnets*
Author: John Donne
Title: *Holy Sonnets*
Time Period: Metaphysical Poetry
Synopsis: A series of religious poems exploring sin, salvation, and divine love.
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*To His Coy Mistress*
Author: Andrew Marvell
Title: *To His Coy Mistress*
Time Period: Metaphysical Poetry
Synopsis: A carpe diem poem urging a lover to seize the moment before time runs out.
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*Paradise Lost*
Author: John Milton
Title: *Paradise Lost*
Time Period: 17th Century Epic Poetry
Synopsis: An epic retelling of the fall of man, focusing on Satan’s rebellion and humanity’s expulsion from Eden.
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*The Rape of the Lock*
Author: Alexander Pope
Title: *The Rape of the Lock*
Time Period: 18th Century Satirical Poetry
Synopsis: A mock-epic satirizing the vanity of aristocratic society through the theft of a lock of hair.
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*Songs of Innocence and Experience*
Author: William Blake
Title: *Songs of Innocence and Experience*
Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Synopsis: A collection of poems exploring the contrast between childlike innocence and the harsh realities of experience.
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*Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey*
Author: William Wordsworth
Title: *Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey*
Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Synopsis: A reflective poem celebrating nature’s influence on the human spirit.
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*The Rime of the Ancient Mariner*
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Title: *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner*
Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Synopsis: A supernatural ballad about a cursed sailor who kills an albatross and faces divine punishment.
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*Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage*
Author: Lord Byron
Title: *Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage*
Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Synopsis: A semi-autobiographical epic about a brooding, restless wanderer.
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*Ozymandias*
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Title: *Ozymandias*
Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Synopsis: A reflection on the fleeting nature of power through the ruins of a fallen empire.
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*Ode to a Nightingale*
Author: John Keats
Title: *Ode to a Nightingale*
Time Period: Romantic Poetry
Synopsis: A meditation on the contrast between the immortality of art and the transience of human life.
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*Leaves of Grass*
Author: Walt Whitman
Title: *Leaves of Grass*
Time Period: American Transcendentalist Poetry
Synopsis: A celebration of democracy, nature, and the human body through free verse poetry.
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*Because I Could Not Stop for Death*
Author: Emily Dickinson
Title: *Because I Could Not Stop for Death*
Time Period: 19th Century American Poetry
Synopsis: A contemplative poem personifying death as a gentle carriage driver.
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*The Raven*
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Title: *The Raven*
Time Period: Gothic Poetry
Synopsis: A narrative poem about a man tormented by grief and a mysterious talking raven.
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*My Last Duchess*
Author: Robert Browning
Title: *My Last Duchess*
Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Synopsis: A dramatic monologue revealing the arrogance and jealousy of a Renaissance duke.
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*Sonnets from the Portuguese*
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Title: *Sonnets from the Portuguese*
Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Synopsis: A series of love sonnets written for her husband, poet Robert Browning.
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*The Charge of the Light Brigade*
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Title: *The Charge of the Light Brigade*
Time Period: Victorian Poetry
Synopsis: A poem commemorating the bravery of British soldiers in the Crimean War.
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*The Second Coming*
Author: W.B. Yeats
Title: *The Second Coming*
Time Period: Modernist Poetry
Synopsis: A prophetic poem about societal collapse and the rise of a new, ominous order.
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*The Waste Land*
Author: T.S. Eliot
Title: *The Waste Land*
Time Period: Modernist Poetry
Synopsis: A fragmented, allusion-heavy poem reflecting the disillusionment of the post-war era.
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*The Negro Speaks of Rivers*
Author: Langston Hughes
Title: *The Negro Speaks of Rivers*
Time Period: Harlem Renaissance Poetry
Synopsis: A poem connecting African American history to ancient civilizations and natural landscapes.
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Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Definition: Long narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds, often involving gods and mythology.
Key Works: *The Iliad*, *The Odyssey* (Homer)
Key Figures: Homer
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Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry
Definition: Personal and emotional poetry, often accompanied by a lyre.
Key Works: *Ode to Aphrodite* (Sappho)
Key Figures: Sappho
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Ancient Roman Epic Poetry
Definition: Inspired by Greek traditions, often focusing on national identity and heroism.
Key Works: *The Aeneid* (Virgil)
Key Figures: Virgil
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Medieval Poetry
Definition: Poetry focused on religious themes, courtly love, and chivalry.
Key Works: *The Divine Comedy* (Dante), *The Canterbury Tales* (Chaucer)
Key Figures: Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Renaissance Poetry
Definition: A revival of classical themes, humanism, and new poetic forms such as the sonnet.
Key Works: *Canzoniere* (Petrarch), *Sonnets* (Shakespeare)
Key Figures: Petrarch, William Shakespeare
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Metaphysical Poetry
Definition: Characterized by intellectual wordplay, complex metaphors, and philosophical themes.
Key Works: *Holy Sonnets* (John Donne), *To His Coy Mistress* (Andrew Marvell)
Key Figures: John Donne, Andrew Marvell
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Neoclassical Poetry
Definition: Emphasized order, reason, and wit, often satirizing society.
Key Works: *The Rape of the Lock* (Alexander Pope)
Key Figures: Alexander Pope
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Romantic Poetry
Definition: Focused on nature, emotion, and the imagination.
Key Works: *Lyrical Ballads* (Wordsworth & Coleridge), *Ozymandias* (Shelley)
Key Figures: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
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Victorian Poetry
Definition: Explored social change, industrialization, and moral struggles.
Key Works: *The Charge of the Light Brigade* (Tennyson), *My Last Duchess* (Browning)
Key Figures: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Modernist Poetry
Definition: Experimented with form and language, often reflecting disillusionment.
Key Works: *The Waste Land* (T.S. Eliot), *The Second Coming* (Yeats)
Key Figures: T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound
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Harlem Renaissance Poetry
Definition: A literary movement celebrating Black identity, culture, and resistance.
Key Works: *The Negro Speaks of Rivers* (Hughes), *If We Must Die* (McKay)
Key Figures: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay
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Confessional Poetry
Definition: Intensely personal and autobiographical poetry.
Key Works: *Ariel* (Sylvia Plath), *Live or Die* (Anne Sexton)
Key Figures: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton
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Beat Poetry
Definition: Rejected societal norms and embraced jazz rhythms, spirituality, and political critique.
Key Works: *Howl* (Allen Ginsberg)
Key Figures: Allen Ginsberg
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Contemporary Poetry
Definition: Diverse and experimental, engaging with themes of identity, politics, and globalization.
Key Works: *And Still I Rise* (Maya Angelou), *Night Sky with Exit Wounds* (Ocean Vuong)
Key Figures: Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Ocean Vuong
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Term
Definition
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Meter
Definition: The rhythmic structure of a poem, determined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Foot
Definition: The basic unit of meter in poetry, consisting of a specific combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Iamb
Definition: A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (e.g., 'delay').
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Trochee
Definition: A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (e.g., 'happy').
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Anapest
Definition: A metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (e.g., 'interrupt').
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Dactyl
Definition: A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (e.g., 'beautiful').
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Spondee
Definition: A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables (e.g., 'heartbreak').
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Free Verse
Definition: Poetry that lacks a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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Blank Verse
Definition: Unrhymed iambic pentameter, commonly used in Shakespearean plays and English poetry.
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Sonnet
Definition: A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, often exploring themes of love and nature.
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Shakespearean Sonnet
Definition: A sonnet composed of three quatrains and a final couplet, following the ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme.
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Petrarchan Sonnet
Definition: A sonnet divided into an octave (ABBAABBA) and a sestet (varied rhyme scheme), often posing a problem and resolution.
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Haiku
Definition: A traditional Japanese form of poetry with three lines (5-7-5 syllable pattern) focusing on nature and fleeting moments.
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Limerick
Definition: A humorous five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme and a distinct rhythm.
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Ode
Definition: A formal, often lyrical poem that praises a person, object, or concept.
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Elegy
Definition: A mournful poem reflecting on loss or death.
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Ballad
Definition: A narrative poem that tells a story, often with a repeated refrain and simple rhyme scheme.
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Epic
Definition: A long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and legendary events.
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Couplet
Definition: A pair of consecutive rhyming lines in a poem.
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Quatrain
Definition: A stanza consisting of four lines, often with alternating rhyme.
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Refrain
Definition: A repeated line or phrase in a poem, often at the end of stanzas.
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Enjambment
Definition: The continuation of a sentence beyond the end of a line or stanza without a pause.
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Caesura
Definition: A deliberate pause or break within a line of poetry.
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Alliteration
Definition: The repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words.
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Assonance
Definition: The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words to create internal rhyme.
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Consonance
Definition: The repetition of consonant sounds, typically at the end of words.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition: A word that imitates the sound it represents (e.g., 'buzz', 'whisper').
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Imagery
Definition: Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates vivid pictures.
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Metaphor
Definition: A figure of speech comparing two unrelated things without using 'like' or 'as'.
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Simile
Definition: A figure of speech comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'.
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Personification
Definition: Giving human qualities to non-human objects or concepts.
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Symbolism
Definition: The use of symbols to represent larger ideas or themes.
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Hyperbole
Definition: An exaggerated statement used for effect or emphasis.
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Paradox
Definition: A statement that seems contradictory but may reveal a deeper truth.
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Irony
Definition: A contrast between expectations and reality, often used to add depth or humor.
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Tone
Definition: The poet’s attitude toward the subject, conveyed through word choice and style.
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Mood
Definition: The overall emotional atmosphere created in a poem.
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Apostrophe
Definition: A poetic device in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person or inanimate object.
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Diction
Definition: The poet’s specific word choice, contributing to tone and meaning.
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Anaphora
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
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Epistrophe
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive lines or sentences.
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Epigraph
Definition: A short quotation or phrase placed at the beginning of a poem to suggest its theme.
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Villanelle
Definition: A 19-line poem with a specific repeating structure and rhyme scheme (ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA).
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Sestina
Definition: A complex poem with six stanzas of six lines each, following a fixed pattern of word repetition.
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Pantoum
Definition: A poem with repeating lines arranged in a specific pattern across quatrains.
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Ghazal
Definition: A traditional Middle Eastern poetic form with rhyming couplets and a refrain.
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Concrete Poetry
Definition: Poetry in which the arrangement of words visually represents the poem’s theme.
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Ekphrasis
Definition: A poem inspired by and describing a work of visual art.
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Volta
Definition: The 'turn' or shift in thought or emotion in a sonnet, typically occurring in the ninth line of a Petrarchan sonnet.
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Term
Definition
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Iambic Meter
Definition: A metrical pattern in which each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (da-DUM).
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Trochaic Meter
Definition: A metrical pattern in which each foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (DA-dum).
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Anapestic Meter
Definition: A metrical pattern in which each foot consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (da-da-DUM).
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Dactylic Meter
Definition: A metrical pattern in which each foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (DA-da-da).
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Spondaic Meter
Definition: A metrical pattern in which each foot consists of two stressed syllables (DA-DA).
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Pyrrhic Meter
Definition: A metrical pattern in which each foot consists of two unstressed syllables (da-da).
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition: A poetic meter with five iambs per line (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM), commonly used in Shakespearean verse.
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Iambic Tetrameter
Definition: A poetic meter with four iambs per line (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM).
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Trochaic Tetrameter
Definition: A poetic meter with four trochees per line (DA-dum DA-dum DA-dum DA-dum), used in works like 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Longfellow.
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Anapestic Tetrameter
Definition: A poetic meter with four anapests per line (da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM da-da-DUM), often found in Dr. Seuss’s work.
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Dactylic Hexameter
Definition: A classical meter with six dactyls per line (DA-da-da DA-da-da DA-da-da DA-da-da DA-da-da DA-da-da), used in epic poetry such as *The Iliad*.
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Spondaic Substitution
Definition: The replacement of an iambic or trochaic foot with a spondee for emphasis.
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Pyrrhic Substitution
Definition: The replacement of a standard foot with a pyrrhic foot, often found in complex meters.
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Common Meter
Definition: A structure alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, frequently used in hymns.
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Ballad Meter
Definition: A variation of common meter often found in folk ballads, alternating between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter with an ABCB rhyme scheme.
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Alexandrine
Definition: A line of verse consisting of twelve syllables, often with a caesura in the middle (six iambic feet).
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Accentual-Syllabic Meter
Definition: A metrical system where both stressed syllables and the number of syllables per line are counted.
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Accentual Verse
Definition: A metrical system where only the stressed syllables are counted, common in Old English poetry.
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Free Verse
Definition: Poetry that lacks a regular meter but may still employ rhythm and cadence.
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Blank Verse
Definition: Unrhymed iambic pentameter, often used in Shakespearean drama and Milton’s *Paradise Lost*.
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Scansion
Definition: The analysis of poetic meter by marking stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Caesura
Definition: A pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation.
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Enjambment
Definition: The continuation of a sentence beyond the end of a line without a pause.
