Poets (Movement, Style, Themes) Flashcards
Wystan Auden
Literary Movement- Post modernist (start of)
“Unknown Citizen”
John Berryman
Literary Movement- post modernist "The ball poem" -once it's gone, it's gone -lose of innocence -can't buy youth, memories, innocence
Anne Bradstreet
Literary Movement- neoclassic (colonial)
“Upon the Burning of our House”
William Bryant
Literary Movement- romantic
“The Waterfowl”
E.E Cummings
Literary Movement- modernist
“pity this busy monster, mankind”
It seems good, but it’s not
- we don’t understand progress
- -progress–comfortable disease
Emily Dickinson
Literary Movement- transcendental
“I Dwell in possibility”
Ralph Emerson
Literary Movement- transcendental
“Hymn”
Robert Frost
Literary Movement-modernist
“Summer Holiday”
Donald Hall
Literary Movement-
“The Man In The Dead Machine”
Randall Jarrell
Literary Movement-post modernist
Style-
Themes-
Robinson Jeffers
Literary Movement- modernist
“Summer Holiday”
Nature
-everything we built will one day be gone
Archibald MacLeish
Literary Movement- post modernist
“Ars Poetica”
-end of the world
-ww 1 was a circus
Edina St. Cincent Millay
Literary Movement- modernist
“Love is Not All”
Howard Nemerov
Literary Movement- post modernist
“Santa Clause”
Sylvia Plath
Literary Movement-post modernist
“Mushrooms”
