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Poetry Test Flashcards

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Marianne Moore

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Bryn mawr college
Teacher livrarian editor 
In nyc published poems 
Wore antique caps and capes
Used excerpts from social science and natural history and her poems 
Reflects imagists
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Poetry

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Audience people who don't like poetry because they don't understand it 
She agrees with audience
Wants simple straightforward poetry 
Tone:sympathetic 
Free verse
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Are poetica by

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Archibald MacLeish

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Archibald MacLeish

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Well educated
Served in ww2 
Moved to France to write
Poems reflect modernist writers 
Won Pulitzer Prizes
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Ars poetica

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About what a poem should and shouldn't be 
Precise images don't have to be explained to have meaning 
Couplets
Similes
Irregular rhyme scheme 
Refrain- a poem should be 
Tone-informative 
Free verse
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River merchants wife by

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Ezra pound

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Ezra pound

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Charged for treason in ww2
Mad
Wanted dictatorship for art creation
Supported Mussolini 
Put in insane asylum
Responsible for dramatic changes occurring in poetry
Poems filled with allusions and culture
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River merchants wife about

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Embodying Roth of love in rarranged marriages
Characters women and husband not present
Imagery 
Apostrophe 
Moss=pain growin deeper 
Butterflies=jealous of them 
Tone romantic and intimate 
Free verse
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Garden by

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Ezra pound

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Garden

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Upperclassmen woman feels she is above those in an lower social class wants someone to talk to but doesn’t want to talk to them she feels she is too good for them
Characters women and narrator
Skein of loose silk- something beautiful against something ordinary but chaotic
Allusion they shall inherit earth- religion poor man way of hoping
Tone : judgement
Structure free verse

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Chicago by

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Carl sandberg

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Carl Sandburg

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Poetic spokesman for American worker 
Common language with cliches
Met people with odd jobs at young age found in poems 
Volunteered in spn us war
Considered rough American poet
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Chicago

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Hardworking city
What’s bad makes it strong
Uses EPITHET
Smilies fierce as a dog perseverance to work to better city
Laughing as young man laughs- people proud cocky rugged individual
Apostrophe- talks to city as if present but it’s an idea
Tone proud in good war
Free verse

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Richard bone by

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Edgar lee masters

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Edgar lee master

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From west 
Found small town life oppressive 
Lawyer
Made famous for epitaphs in spoon river 
But did in free verse
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Richard bone

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Stone cutter for spoon river who chiseled epitaphs
Realizes chiseling lies his whole life
Influenced to hide truth
Realizes lies will be preserved in history as truth
Free verse

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Butch weldy

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Killed a blind man 
Jack the fiddler
Affected by an accident making him blind
Eyes burnt like eggs
Hair seemed to heave 
Tone: self pity
Found religious
Someone he knew blinded him he had bad injuries 
Complete victimizing himself 
Said he didn't know blind man he killed 
He didn't kill someone he one  
Ironic because life for worse when he settled down 
Free verse
Kills blind man goes unpunished 
Butch weldy injures him goes unpunished
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Mes George Reece by

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Edgar lee masters

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Mrs George Reece

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Woman negatively affected by fall of bank
Husband went to prison bc lower jobs took fall
Forced to raise the kids by herself and taught them how to be front honest people
Allusion to pope act week your part there all honor lies
Imagery into the world all clean and strong
Tone bitter
Free verse

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Tableau by

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Counter Cullen

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Countee Cullen

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Literary figure form Harlem Renaissance 
Lyric poet and romantic
FOLLOWED TRADITON
Adopted by a reverend
Tough at public schools
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Tableau

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About black and whites walking. Together unaware of their racial and social differences
All adults looking down upon them but they value innocent friendship
Lyric poem
Simile- idea of integration should come before desegregation lighting brilliant as sword to blaze path
Golden splendor of the day sable pride of night
Metaphor
Tone: hopeful
Structure: iambic quatrains

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Incident

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About BALCK kid gets called name even though he smiles at white boy
Bc of white boys upbringing
Lasting affects of racial name calling 
Exemplifies societal differences 
Powerful protest against racism 
Iambic lyric poem 
Tone sad 
Only experience from Baltimore he remembers was that he grew out of naivety
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Langston Hughes

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Harlem Renaissance
Helped by vachel Lindsay to protect from exploiters
Busboy poetry
Became famous overnight
Free verse with jazz rythms
Influenced by Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg
Addressed historical events and African Americans

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Negro speaks of rivers

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Point out history of black people in America and how history flows across seas back to ancient rivers which witnessed birth of humanity
Characters the black narrator
Personification Mississippi sings
Muddy river shines after emancipation
Refrain my soul has grown deep like rivers
Tone reflective and respectful
Parallel structure(I bathed I build I looked)

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Negro speaks of rivers by

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Langston Hughes

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Dreams by

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Langston Hughes

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Dreams

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About holding onto dreams is motivation force within us without them we are nothing
refrain hold fast to dreams
Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly
Life is a barren field frozen with snow
Tone motivational
Written in quatrains Reginald rhyme scheme and rhythm

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Mother to son by

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Langston Hughes

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Mother to son

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Bait a woman giving advice saying he should t expect life to be perfect bc there will always be obstacles
Speaking from experience
Life to staircase
Images going into dark where no light breaking racial boundaries
Life not a crystal stair
Tone truthful tough love
Free verse

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Lover song of j Alfred prufrock by

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Ts Elliot

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Love song of ja prufrock

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About insecure man wanting to change bc physical appearance
Skinny bald unappealing
Wants a date
Talks himself out of each one
Dramatic monologue
Metaphor smoke to cat bc of movements
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Allusion to j baptist Lazarus hamlet
Great time passed
Will have to be revived from seasonal death
Lacy of confidence
Greek mythology allusion to sirens he is so unappealing even sure se don’t want him
Girls talking to Michelangelo wants to be a part
Season changes are his ages he is in autumn
Tone sad self loathing
Free verse

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Ts Elliot

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Nobel prize winner pioneer of modern poetry
Most obscure of era
Influenced by Symbolists

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Poetry by

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Marianne Moore

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The jilting of granny witherall by

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Anne k porter

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Anne k porter

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Work about southern women obligation
From south
Deprived of family
Slow worker

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Jilting of granny

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Haunted by her fiancé leaving her at the alter
Reassures herself because she got remarried and says she wouldn’t trade that
Bothers her till death shows she never made peace with it
Compared heaven to a place where she will see the man who left her is not ready to die for that reason
Feels like she as seen hell in the way she felt
She is jilted from a sign from God because she wants to feel is presence but doesn’t
Grammy successfully resists female social roles by caring for her family herself
Free verse

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Soldiers home by

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Earnst Hemingway

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Earnst Hemingway

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Style of writing made measure of excellence
Wounded knew in war
Poems reveal his life especially war
Depressed
Adventurer
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Soldiers home

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Soldier comes home from war 
Unmotivated 
Characters Krebbs unmotivated 
Sister loves
Mom loves him wants him to pray he doesn't love her
Dad not present 
Comes him late from war does have stories lays around watches girls mom wants him to work tell her he doesn't love her can't pray decides to leave and work lies at first but doesn't like it so he just stops having conversations 
Free verse
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A dream deferred by

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Langston Hughes

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A dream deferred

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Imagery 
Similes
Alliteration 
What happens to dreams of they don't come true do the shrivel
Fester and then run 
Linger forever 
Become good
Bring you down 
Or create chaos
Tone contemplative 
Regular rhyme scheme
Free verse
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Allusion

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Reference to someone or something known for on history literature religion politics sports or other

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Symbolism

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Literary movement from 19 century France writers rearrange world of appearances to reveal a more truthful version of reality called for images to evoke complexities of meaning and mood

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Imagism

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29 century movement with hard clear images that express everyday speech

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Free verse

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Poetry that does not conform to regular rhyme scheme or meter

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Apostrophe

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Figure of speech in which something dead I present or no human is addressed as if it were alive and present
River merchants wife
Chicago

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Iamb

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Metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Antithero

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Found in butch weldy
Love story of prufrock
Soldiers home
Character who isn’t a hero

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Personified epithet

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Used to describe something but as a name

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Refrain

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Repeated phrase for emphasis

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Irony

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Butch weldy

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Harlem by

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Langston Hughes

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Harlem about

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Blacks on the edge of opportunity but can’t reach it
Bitterness towards longevity of this
Prices rose were highly affected because can’t get jobs
All they can remember
Expression of helpless ness
Call to action
Mood urgent

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Imagery

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Use of language to evoke a picture or concrete sensation of a person place thing or experience

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Dramatic monologue

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Poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners whose responses are not known
J and prufrock
Mother to son
Apostrophe

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Symbolism

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Precision to concreteness and decoration

Free verse overrides traditional poetic forms

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Imagism

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Born from symbolism
Form of expression in which artists rearranged world appearances seeking to depict a different more truthful version of reality

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Romantics v Symbolists

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Both stress importance of ideas and feelings
Emphasized independence of individual
Against mechanization
Symbolists found no spiritual renewal in nature

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Why do you think Symbolists focus on individualism was so appealing to American poets

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Symbolists focus on individualism was so appealing to American poets because of the issues in American history such as women’s roles in society, segregation, and the destruction of the American Dream

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How did imagists change poetry

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Made it easy to understand

Used concrete clear images

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New generations often reject established ideas about poetry why do you think that is

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Generations reject poetry because it has a connotation that involves digging into a complex place yourself and decoding the things that aren’t literal

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Blank verse

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Poetry written in untuned iambic pentameter

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