study Guide Poetry p1

Question 1

Claude McKay

Answer 1

• Poet of Rebellion
• Jamacin
• Critic of Racism
• novelist

Question 2

Langston Hughes

Answer 2

• Was Thee Harlem Renaissance
• Focused on poor & Working class (African American)
• Anmired Carl Sandburg & Walt Whitman
• Lived in Mexico
• Discovred when he was a busboy

Question 3

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Answer 3

• The first American modernist
• ROUGH life ( financial issues, dad died…)
• Pulitizer Prize winner
• Hated free verse
• Narritive Poet
• Wrote about tensions in small towns

Question 4

Carl Sandburg

Answer 4

• Born in Galesburg, IL
• Swedish Immigrant parents
• Stopped school at age 13 to work
• Wonderlust at age 19
• LOVED Abe Lincoln

Question 5

3 triats of Carl Sandburg

Answer 5

1. Repetition
   - anaphoras
   - Bookends
2. Personifications
3. 1st Person Speaker (“I”)

Question 6

William Carlos Williams

Answer 6

• Liked Objectivism and Imaginism
• Lived in Rutherford, NJ
• English Father and Puerto Rican Mother
• Full-time DR.
  - He wrote poems on prescription blanks
• Published 40 works

Question 7

ee cummings

Answer 7

• He got his B.A. & his M.A. in collage
• Fought in WW2
• Very popular
• Died of a stroke at age 67
  - THEMES: Loves & human individuality.
  ( feel more through your poems)

Question 8

Sylvia Plath

Answer 8

• rough relationship with parents
• 1 Q of 160 ( 100 is considered “Average” )
• Bipolar disorder and severe depression
• Attempted suicide at 20

Question 9

T.S. Eliot

Answer 9

• imagism
• Born in America but does in Britain
• Got a B.A. and M.A. from Harvard
• expat
• Ezra Pound had him stay in England and marry a girl named Vivian
• Both had poor health
• 1st famous poem “Love Song”
• He was Baptised on June 29, 1927
• November 1927 became a British citizen