Arlt 101- Art Of Poetry 1St Midterm Flashcards, Mina

Front 1

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Back 1

Robert Frost - "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

there is iambic trimeter in the poem

there is also heavy alliteration in the poem ( her-hardest-hue-to-hold, alliteration of sound "h") and some more.

prominent poem that made Frost win a Pulitzer Prize.

imagery of nature and natural beauty by words and depicts the decline of every promise in life

Front 2

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,--
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

Back 2

Emily Dickinson- "This is My Letter To The World"

This is not a narrative poem.

Dickinson's style is a bit different. ( Professor said we will her style in further classes with further reading) It becomes hard to understand at some point

Punctuation important in this poem

Front 3

I don't have the poem or notes for this since I did not prepare for it at the time and have no notes on it..

Back 3

Omar Khayyam- "Rubaiyat"