English Midterm

Front 1

Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,”

Back 1

writes an assignment for school
colored
racism
comparison to being white

Front 2

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Rain”

Back 2

Paul-3rd grade, "Somebody touched me on the shoulder"
looking for a place to go and hide
speaker, teacher, paul

Front 3

Martín Espada, “Public School 190, Brooklyn 1963"

Back 3

public school- property vandalized, beat up
Kennedy was shot

Front 4

Audre Lorde, “Coal”

Back 4

being black

Front 5

Emily Dickinson

Back 5

After Great Pain
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,”
“Much Madness is divinest Sense,”
“We grow accustomed to the Dark,”
“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun,”
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant,”
“There’s a certain Slant of light,”

Front 6

Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess,”

Back 6

duke killed his last duchess--- dont mess with him
jealous- didn't want to reveled it
he had the duchess killed

Front 7

Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Back 7

narrative, dramatic monologue
"In the room where women come and go talking of Michelangelo"
thinks the women judges him
class difference-superficial-accused women for picking him apart
insecurities

Front 8

Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night,”

Back 8

child telling dying father not to go
father and son
son honors his father

Front 9

Li-Young Lee, “From Blossoms”
“I Ask My Mother to Sing,” “Mnemonic,” & “The Gift”

Back 9

"I ask my mother to sing"-stories of ancestors
Mnemonic-blue sweater poem
"The Gift"-wooden splinter

Front 10

Piercy “Barbie Doll,”

Back 10

insecurities of a young girl
big nose, fat legs
plastic surgery

Front 11

Mora, “Immigrants,”

Back 11

turning into american
stereotype

Front 12

Clifton, “homage to my hips,”

Back 12

acceptance of her hips
"big hips, free hips, magic hips, etc

Front 13

Ortiz Cofer “Quinceañera,”

Back 13

becoming an adult, crossing over from childhood to adulthood

Front 14

Roethke,“My Papa’s Waltz,”

Back 14

boy speaker, made him waltz, drunk father, hits him

Front 15

philip Larkin “This Be the Verse,”

Back 15

talks about how messed up parents are, they were messed up so you are too and you shouldnt reproduce

Front 16

Plath, “Daddy,”

Back 16

holocaust

Front 17

Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays,”

Back 17

describes a father who worked very hard for his life
emphasizes the cold

Front 18

Atwood, “this is a photograph of me,”

Back 18

photograph -this was taken the day after I drowned
but if you look long enough eventually you will find me

Front 19

adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck,”

Back 19

diving-metaphor

Front 20

Arthur Miller

Back 20

Death of a Salesman

Front 21

Willy Loman

Back 21

aging salesman
hard time remembering things
on commission borrows $$
suicidal- kills himself at the end
high standards for sons "american dream"
fired from job
affair with another woman

Front 22

Biff Loman

Back 22

son of will
plan to open business
complusive stealer
rebel
doesnt believe he needs to work for things

Front 23

Happy Loman

Back 23

youngest son of will
buys into the idea of the american dream
sleeps with boss' fiance

Front 24

Linda Loman

Back 24

throws sons out of the house

Front 25

Langston Hughes

Back 25

Theme for English B

Front 26

Naomi Shihab Nye

Back 26

Rain

Front 27

Audre Lorde

Back 27

Coal

Front 28

Martín Espada

Back 28

“Public School 190, Brooklyn 1963”

Front 29

Billy Collins

Back 29

“Sonnet,”

Front 30

Billy collins, "Sonnet"

Back 30

sonnet that makes fun of a sonnet

Front 31

Spenser,

Back 31

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand,”

Front 32

Spenser “One day I wrote her name upon the strand,”

Back 32

immoralize

Front 33

Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds,”

Back 33

love

Front 34

. Shakespeare,

Back 34

“Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds,”

Front 35

St. Vincent Millay “Love is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink,”

Back 35

love isnt necessary

Front 36

St. Vincent Millay

Back 36

“Love is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink,”

Front 37

Robert Browning

Back 37

, “My Last Duchess,”

Front 38

Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

Back 38

“Mother and Poet,”

Front 39

Eliot

Back 39

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Front 40

Thomas

Back 40

"Do not go gentle into that good night"

Front 41

Piercy

Back 41

Barbie doll

Front 42

Mora

Back 42

Immigrants

Front 43

Clifton

Back 43

Homage to my hips

Front 44

Ortiz Cofer

Back 44

Quinceañera

Front 45

Roethke

Back 45

My papa's waltz

Front 46

Larkin

Back 46

This be the verse

Front 47

Plath

Back 47

Daddy

Front 48

Hayden

Back 48

Those winter sundays

Front 49

Atwood

Back 49

This is a photograph of me

Front 50

Rich

Back 50

diving into the wreck

Front 51

arthur miller

Back 51

death of a salesman

Front 52

Hansberry

Back 52

a raisin in the sun