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| the mask or voice assumed by a writer. Never assume that the speaker is the author. Refer to the speaker as a persona. |
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| they didn't know the mounds were graves or as the milk tooths in the ground as headstones. The father made the grape sherbet to make memories. |
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| Same Song's not fair meanings |
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2 possible meanings:
not beautiful
not just |
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| Coloridge's Definition of poetry |
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| The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings |
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Poet Laureate of Russia
where he was exiled for years
and put in a concentration camp
Nobel Piece Prize winner
and is most famous for his work One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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Example: Aztec Blue
Neon Pink
Frosted Mauve |
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| Same Song literally allusion |
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| Storm of the Mountains main imagery |
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| died too young for his age |
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| Li-Young Lee view of poetry |
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| compares the complexities of poetry to DNA |
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| Egar Allen Poe's Definition of poetry |
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| the best words in the best order |
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U.S. Poet Laureate 1993-1995
First African American and youngest Poet Laureate |
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| to say that you have to look at the small things and not just the big picture |
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| a poem of mourning. Elegies are generally for the dead and generally solemn, even melancholy in tone. THIS IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH AN EULOGY. |
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| a figure of speech that uses the word, like, as, than, or resembles to compare things that seem to have little or nothing in common |
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| language based on some sort of comparison that is literally not true |
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| another kind of comparison between unlike things |
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| something is something else(Men are dogs). |
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| a metaphor carried over several lines |
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| attributing human qualities to an nonhuman thing |
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| unlike a narrative poem which tells a story, a lyric poem suggest a single, strong emotion. |
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| Where does the word "Lyric" come from? |
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| Baca's suggestion about love |
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| he suggests love is everything |
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| Navajo log home, hexagonalin shape, with a roof of packed earth and a doorway facing east. |
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| sent to prison based on letters he wrote. they thought he was a spy. |
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| arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence |
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| E.E. Cummings lack of punctuation and metaphors |
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| he says that life is not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis. The poem lacks punctuation because paragraphs have rules, but life does not so he doesn't use any. Also he says death is not avoidable and necessary. |
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| Heart! We will forget him! by Emily Dickinson theme |
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Unrequited Love
Passion vs. Reason |
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Immediate and strong break in thought.
Emily Dickinson is queen of the dash. |
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Heart! We will forget him!
what qualities does she want to forget? |
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| she wants to forget his warmth and light. |
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Heart! We will forget him!
What literary device is the heart in this poem? |
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Personification of the heart
she gives the heart the command to "forget" and "pray tell me" |
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| How many sonnets are there in total? |
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| the original order the sonnets(NOT THE ORDER WE HAVE TODAY). The sequence was thought to form a story. |
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| 14 lines of iambic pentameter, separated into three quatrains(rhyming, four line stanzas). |
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| two consecutive lines of end rhyme |
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| the first eight lines of a sonnet. These lines ask a question or pose a problem that the persona is having. |
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| the last six lines of a sonnet. These lines answer the question or present a resolution to the problem. |
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| The "theme" or thesis of a sonnet |
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
How will the speaker's love become immortal? |
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| It becomes immortal because as long as people read this poem it lives |
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| a long lyric poem about a serious subject, written in a dignified style. |
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| Why did Pablo Neruda change his name? |
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| so he wouldn't embarrass his family. |
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| What prize was Neruda awarded in 1971? |
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| Why did Neruda flee from Chile, his home? |
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| He went against the government |
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| the repetition of consonants sounds in words that appear close together. |
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| The important use of repetition? |
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We Real Cool
Why is this short in many ways? |
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they are uneducated.
The sentences, stanzas, and the whole poem is short because they know that their lives will end soon continuing their actions as is. |
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