Poetry Flashcards
4 poets’ names?
- Emily Dickinson
- Lord Byron
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Frost
Blank verse
- 10 syllables per line
- Stress every other syllable
- No rhyming (ABCD)
Iambic pentameter
- 10 syllables per line
- Stress every other syllable
- End rhymes (ABAB)
Common meter
- Alternates between 8 and 6 syllables
- Iambic meter (Unstressed, stressed)
- E.g. Amazing Grace
- Often used in hymns as it sounds lyrical
When and where did the Romantic era occur?
1750s Europe.
What caused the Romantic era?
Partly a reaction to industrialization and scientific rationalization of nature.
5 characteristics of the Romantic era
- Freedom of the artist
- Nature
- Heightened emotions
- Aesthetics/beauty
- Vivid imagery and personification
What does meter mean?
The pattern of beats in a verse or poem
Other Romanticism knowledge
- Freedom
- Glorification of the past
- Beautiful, ethereal
- Influences history, education, politics, art, literature (everything)
- Poets: Emily Dickinson, STC
Lyric Poetry
- Part of Romanticism
- First person accounts of thoughts or feelings (still extreme)
- Can be sonnets (14 verses in I.P)
- Some poets: WORDSWORTH, John Keats, STC, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron
- Implies a connection to songs/music, usually evident in the structured meter
Out, Out-
Poet, theme, tone/mood, POV, meter, what happens, speaker notes
Poet:
- Robert Frost
Theme:
- Working until you die
- Life goes on
Tone/Mood:
- Sad
- Regretful
POV:
- 3rd objective
Meter:
- Blank verse
What Happens:
- A boy cuts his hand off while doing manual labor.
Speaker Notes:
- Speaker is connected in some way to the boy.
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison-
Poet, theme, tone/mood, POV, meter, what happens, speaker notes
Poet:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Theme:
- Sometimes it is good to not get what you were promised/go on the adventure because then you can appreciate what you have
- It is hard to not be able to do anything
Tone/Mood:
- He describes the situation with a sad tone
- He is jealous and depressed
POV:
- 1st person
Meter:
- Blank verse
What Happens:
- Speaker is depressed that he is not on a trip to London with his friends after sustaining an injury to the foot
Speaker Notes:
- He wants to be with his friends on a trip/vacation in London
- He lives in England
- He is missing making memories
- He is jealous and depressed
I’m Nobody
Poet, theme, tone/mood, POV, meter, what happens, speaker notes
Poet:
- Emily Dickinson
Theme:
- Being “somebody” is lifeless/dreary
- You shouldn’t want to be somebody
Tone/Mood:
- Ironically happy and joyful
POV:
- 1st person
Meter:
- Iambic
What Happens:
- The author asks the audience whether they are somebody or “nobody” like her. She then compares being famous to being “an admiring bog”, and also says that being somebody is dreary/lifeless.
Speaker Notes:
- The speaker is nobody and does not wish to be somebody.
- Being nobody is to be a private person (someone who has no presence)
- The addressee is a Nobody too, a hidden Nobody, someone who acts like somebody
The Chariot
Poet, theme, tone/mood, POV, meter, what happens, speaker notes
Poet:
- Emily Dickinson
Theme:
- Death is looming and inevitable
- We all die eventually
Tone/Mood:
- Dark
- Reminiscing
POV:
- 1st person
Meter:
- Common meter
What Happens:
- The speaker recounts their experience with death in a romantic manner
Speaker Notes:
- The speaker is dead or dying
- Dressed up for the wedding to Death
- On a carriage with Death
She Walks In Beauty
Poet, theme, tone/mood, POV, meter, what happens, speaker notes
Poet:
- Lord Byron
Theme:
- There is beauty in innocence
- Inner and outer beauty are both important
Tone/Mood:
- Overtone: Romantic, appreciative
- Undertone: Condescending, objectifying
POV:
- 3rd objective
Meter:
- Octameter
What Happens:
- The speaker is describing a woman who he only finds beautiful at night time.
Speaker Notes:
- Speaker thinks the addressee is beautiful at night.
- Speaker thinks because the addressee is beautiful, she must have pure thoughts.
The sky is always…?
Heaven
Meter for Out, Out, Lime Tree, Chariot
Blank verse, blank verse, common meter
