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68 Cards in this Set
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We do not speak like Petrarch or wear a hat like Spencer |
American Sonnet
Literary references Sonnet form types of literature Nature History |
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It's the kind of Spring morning |
A history of weather
Time Nature Geography Spirituality |
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I can see them standing politely on the wide pages |
First Reader
Literature Time Literary references
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The emotion is to be found in the clouds |
Student of Clouds
Nature Geography Art
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In most self portraits it's the face that dominates |
Candle Hat
Art
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I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions |
Death of Allegory
Literature Art Time Nature |
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The House is All in Darkness Except for the Corner bedroom |
Reading Myself to Sleep
Literary References Time Nature
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It is easy to find out if a poet is a contemporary poet |
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Literature Time Death History |
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Somewhere in the Rolling Hills and farm country |
the Hunt
Nature Language |
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The name of the author is the first to go |
Forgetfulness
Literature Nostalgia Nature |
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Of all the questions you might wish to ask |
Questions about Angels
Language Time Religion Art |
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It is now coming into view |
A Wonder of the World
Geography Nature |
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On the pages I am turning are early pictures of the World |
Mappamuni
Nature Time Geography
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It is so Early Almost nothing is happening |
First Geniuses
Time Nature Art Geogrophy |
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While you are preparing for sleep brushing your teeth |
The Afterlife
Death Art Nature Mythology
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The dead are always looking down on us they say |
The Dead
Death Time |
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It is so quiet on the shore of the motionless lake |
Endangered
Nature Language |
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It's a story as famous as three little pigs |
Going out for Cigarettes
Fairytales Art Nature
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My Favorite time to write is in the late Afternoon |
Purity
Time Literature Death Nature |
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My life is an open book |
Cliche
Literature Writing Language |
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No one I asks knows the name of the flower |
Field Guide
Nature Geography Time |
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It is raining so hard and the jazz on the radio |
Putti in the Night
Art Literature Time Spirituality |
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He used to frighten me in the nights of childhood |
The Man in the Moon
Nature Time |
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When I show you the photograph of me |
Horseman, Pass by!
Literary References Time Geography |
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There is no need for me to keep a skull on my desk |
Memento Mori
Literary References Death |
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Once there was a time when the moon swept over the hemlocks |
The last man on Earth
Nature Geography |
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I spot the neighbor's dog scampering across the lawn |
Come Running
Nature Writing |
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This morning is the same as all other mornings |
Modern Peasant
Time Nature |
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I wish my head to appear perfectly round |
Instructions to the Artist
Art Geography |
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It is awkward for me and bewildering for him |
Weighing the Dog |
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This is the only life I have |
One life to live
Life Nature |
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I thought about his death for so many hours |
The Wires of the Night
Death Time |
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And the two are braided together |
Axiom
Death |
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I want the scissors to be sharp |
Vade mecum |
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The valentine of desire is pasted over my heart |
Not touching
Life Nature |
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When you injure me, as you must one day |
Night Stand |
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The small camel leaves his common place |
Love in the Sahara |
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Turn away from me, you, and get lost in the past |
Invective
Geography Time |
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He was born one sunny Florida morning |
The life of Riley: a Definitive Biography
Geography Time Death |
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Just when I'm about to telephone her |
Jack
Literary references Geography Art Love |
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If Kafka could turn a man into an insect in one sentence |
Metamorphosis |
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I wonder if I have become smaller or has the bedroom always |
Saturday Morning |
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No wonder everyone loved the private dick |
Late Show |
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I am carrying my homemade pies down a cobblestone road |
Pie Man
Fairytale |
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A wolf is reading a book of fairy tales |
Wolf
Fairy Tale |
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Trying to protect his students' innocence |
The History Teacher
Time Aging Geography |
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All of Paris must have been away on holiday |
Pensee
Geography History |
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Long before Dizzy |
The discovery of scat |
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I can hear him out in the kitchen his lapping the night's only music |
Dog |
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There is no known cure for them |
The willies |
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We might have guessed as much |
On Reading in the morning paper that dreams may be only nonsense |
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The illustrations always portray him outside |
Rip Van Winkle |
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I pass under the arched entrance to my hedge-maze |
English Country House |
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Remember the 1340s? |
Nostalgia
History Language Geography |
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Tercet |
Three line stanza |
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Quatrain |
Four line stanza |
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Conceit |
Extended Metaphor |
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Archetype |
Typical character for a situation |
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End rhyme |
Rhyme at the end of the line |
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Antithesis |
Contrast |
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Conventional Symbols |
Rose |
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Blank Verse |
meter and verses but no rhyme |
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Prose |
Not written in versus |
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Narrative Poem |
Tells a story |
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Paradox |
Truth is honey which is bitter |
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Consonance |
Repetition of consonants |
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Feminine Rhyme |
Unstressed rhyme |
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Masculine rhyme |
Stressed rhyme |
