poetry

Question 1

rita dove

Answer 1

heart to heart

Question 2

gwendolyn brookes

Answer 2

we real cool

Question 3

sylvia plath

Answer 3

mirror

Question 4

elizabeth bishop

Answer 4

the waiting room

Question 5

modernism

Answer 5

gwendolyn brookes

Question 6

Elizabeth bishop

Answer 6

confessional poets

Question 7

sylvia plath

Answer 7

confessional poets

Question 8

rita dove

Answer 8

living/contemporary poets

Question 9

confessional poetry movement

Answer 9

poets that wrote in direct rhythms and used images that reflected their own experiences.
-confessional poetry started around 1950s-1960s and was all about the self

Question 10

beat movement

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Beat poets sought to write in an authentic, unfettered style.
=“First thought, best thought”.
-Beat poets expanded their consciousnesses through explorations of hallucinogenic drugs and sexual freedom.
-took place from the 1950s-1960s.

Question 11

harlem rennessance

Answer 11

“a spiritual coming of age” for African American artists and thinkers, who seized upon their “first chances for group expression and self-determination.”
-took place in the 1920s

Question 12

imagism

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movement against romanticism and Victorian poetry that emphasized simplicity, clarity of expression, and precision through the use of exacting visual images.
-Took place in the 1920s

Question 13

walt Whitman

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Whitman’s writing style and subject matter was unnerving.
-he abandoned the regular meter and rhyme patterns” of his contemporaries, -Whitman was “influenced by the long cadences and rhetorical strategies of Biblical poetry.”
-worked as a clerk during the civil war and helped wounded soldiers

Question 14

emily Dickinson

Answer 14

-she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints.
-found botany fascinating and often wrote about it in her poems
-attended Amherst academy for sciences