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28 Cards in this Set
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Double Dutch
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poem about a girl double dutching has a lot of metaphors for example it compared the jump rope to the mathematical term Parobala.
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We Real Cool
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Short poem about 7 kids quitting school, playing pool, getting drunk and then soon their lives could soon be over. Good example of Irony because instead of it being about some cool boys they actually might die which isnt cool
The poem is written in first person, alliteration is constant, poem sounds somewhat like a rap. |
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Bonny Barbara Allen
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Folk Ballad about a Sir Jon Graem falling in love with Barbara Allen. He loved her so much he got lovesick and was put on his death bed. Barbara came to visit, rejected his love but once he died she felt guilty and wanted to die as well.
and death was with him dealing..Example of Syntax Poem gives Death human characteristics |
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Sestina
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poem about a grandmother and her grandchild whose father has died. Could possibly be about Bishop losing her father.
The tone is very melancholy. The diction such as tears and rain really help to form that. Grandma is crying and child tries to cheer her up by drawing a picture. -Poem in third person -Sestina has a form of ABCDEF in first stanza FAEBDC and so on |
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The Waking
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is about finding out the meaning of life through the allotted times of waking and sleeping..says not to fear death because we experience it everynight. Says that the journey is better than finding out the answer
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The Portrait
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The poem is about a little boy showing his angry , depressed mother a picture of his father who committed suicide. The poem ends saying how the mother ripped the picture and then slapped her son.
Speaker is Kunitz himself Strong Imagery |
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Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird
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this poem explains 13 different perspectives of looking at a blackbird
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Small Murders
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poem about a girl explaining how the kisses of a boy seemed like small murders on her skin because she was still thinking about her ex.
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The Triumph of Achilles
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this poem is about achilles and how he felt when his cousin patroclus was murdered by hector becaused he dressed in his armor and looked like him.
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The Second Coming
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this poem is basically speaking about the end of the world coming. It speaks about a lion body with the head of a human also known as a sphinx. Therefore the second coming want be of jesus but some type of beast
It is an iambic pentameter and has violent imagery this was the author who talked about history being a "gyre" and will continue endlessly |
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Penelope's Despair
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Penelope dispair comes from knowing that her husband is coming back and still alive and she unfortunately has to remain married
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Lady Lazarus
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Poem about a woman trying to kill herself but never successfully does it..has some connections to the holocaust.
The author actually has attempted suicide numerous times so the speaker of this poem is definitely Sylvia path |
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Women
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poem about three sisters who are in different situations of their life one sister is ready to show her true self, another sister is trying to sew her broken heart closed and the third sister is probably poor but is okay with life
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Men at Forty
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this poem talks about how wise a man at the age of 40 may be.Uses shutting a door softly as a metaphor when it really implies that older men leave places where there return is unlikely in peace
talks about the experience of a man growing old |
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Odes to a Grecian Urn
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This poem is about a speaker describing a urn that he is looking at each stanza is about a different picture on the urn
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Wild nights, Wild nights
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a poem in which the speaker is expressing the unrestrained sexual passion he/she has for their sexual partner and how they want to be with them again. Compares sexual intercourse to the ocean waves
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The Soul Selects her own Society.
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a poem in which the speaker believes that the soul chooses one person out of the society to love and then excludes the rest of the world. Regardless of if he's a knight or king.
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Mother to son
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a poem about a mother warning her son about how tough life can be and encouraging him to never give up, Life is not going to be a crystal stair.
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I too
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Langston hughes is speaking for all blacks about how he is also american even though people may look at him differently or make him eat in the kitchen
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The death of the ball turret gunner
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this poem represents is about a young boy in war who has to be in the most dangerous place during battle, the fighter jet. Unfortunately he dies.
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The Woman at the Washington zoo
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about a speaker who contrasts the lives of animals in cages to her role in the world. She calls out to be freed and wants to get away from the humane world and instead become one of the animals
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Thanksgiving
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poem about a holiday that is supposed to be fun and family but this one is somewhat sad. Someone might have died on this day
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The cripple in the Subway
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a poem that speaks about a sister and a bike wreck and how that could have in result injured her walk.
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Theories of time and space
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a poem that is about traveling to ship island, a place where freed slaves fought in the civil war and metaphorically speaks about history and time . trying to convey that every minute in life is unknown.
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Elegy for the native guards
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a poem written in memory of the african american soldiers who fought for their freedom in the civil war.
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Remembering Him Dying
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dude is teaching girl to ride bike and he dies, maybe he got hit by a car or something
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Tulipomania
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poem that talks about a flower that everybody wanted so bad because they had a virus that made them look so beautiful. they would spend millions of dollars for it
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The Love of Blood
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a poem about a little girl who's brothers have hemophilia "love of blood" she feels their pain and wants them to have a better life
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