Poetry Unit Test- Hams

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unnancented followed by one accented

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Iamb

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two unnancented, followed by one accented

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anapest

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accented, followed by one accented

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trochee

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accented followed by 2 accented

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dactyl

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last syllables of a final words rhyme

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masculine (toy/boy)

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rhyming accented syllables are followed by rhyming indentical unaccented syllables

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feminine (mainly, plainly)

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who wrote Alambama Centennial?

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Naomi Long Madgett

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Who wrote la belle dame sans merci

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John Keats

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Who wrote O what is that souond?

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W.H. Auden

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Who wrote teh Sonnet Balled

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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who wrote generations

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Amy Lowell

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who wrote Miss Rosie

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Lucille Clifton

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who wrote Night Clouds

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Amy Lowell

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who wrote Loss

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A. R. Ammons

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Who wrote the fish

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Elizabeth Bishop

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Who wrote Jazz Fantasia

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Carl Sandburg

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Who wrote shall i compare thee to a summers day

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William Shakespeare

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Who wrote Letter slot

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John Updike

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who wrote Auto Wreck?

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Karl Shapiro

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this author spend much of her career as a writing teacher and has written many textbooks about writing and literature

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Naomi Long Madgette
(1923-???)

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this author is an english poet. and went to school in london. He studied Surgery but dovoted life to poetry. He emphasized feeling and imagination over reason and logic in his Poetry. His poems Communicate the appreciation of beauty and a sadness at its impermanence

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John Keats

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enlgish poet. Studeied at Oxford University. He married Erika mann, to provide a british passport she needed to escape from hittler.

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Wystan Hugh Auden

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Born in Topeka Kansas but grew up in Chicago. She wrote her first poems at 7 and Submietted them to Chicago Newspaper by 16. She wont the Pulitzer prise.

-- The sonnet ballaed exemplifires Brooks's attempt in her writing to the feature people and their concerns- their troubles as well as their joys

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Gwendlyn Brooks

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born in: Brookline Massachusettes

She joined IMAGISTS. She became an engergetic leader of the movement. She wont a Pulitzer Prise fo Whats O'clock.

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Amy Lowell

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Born in: Depew NY
children and adult book writer

Won a National Endowment for the arts Award.

Poet in residence and Coppin state college.

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Lucille Clifton

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Executive Vice President of a firm in Atlancic City. NJ. He taught creative writing at Cornell University. Won the National BookAward.

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A.R. Ammons

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1911-1979 Lived in brazil.

Bishop entered a poerty contest and won. Her first book was Morth and South. Always a close observer of nature

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Elizabeth Bishop

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-Galesberg Illinoise.
Worked for Milawaukee Newspapers.
-Then Chicago NEws
- Reporter, editorial writer, motion picture editor, columnist. Pulistezer prize winner

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Carl Sandburg

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Actor, thearter owner, renowned playright and poet. 38 plays, wrote sonnets,

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Shakespeares

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Shilliongton Pennyslyvania is where most novels are set.

Attended Harvard

staff member of NEw yorker magazine.

Pulitzer prize winner

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John Updike

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college professor, critic, ediot or Poetry and Prairie Schooner.

-Won Pulitzer Prize

-Focuses on his experience as a Jewish Soldier in USA army in World War II

_ wants to eliminate the line btwn poetry and prose

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Karl Shapiro

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alabama centennial

1. who is speaking
2. to whom?
3. what person ( 1st 3rd etc)?

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A. African American Race (first person)
B. To every American (black and white)
C. First person

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Alamabma centennial (AC)

setting:

specific places metioned

what centennial

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1. Alabama, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery.
* 1965 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,

2. cotton fields, kitchens, balconies, backdoors, chaingangs, toilets, ghettos, schools, voting booths (places where blacks hang out or work)

centennial is a 100 year celebration soo.. i guess of black people being alive and idk!!

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what is author saying in AC?

B. why is she saying this

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1. We wont wait anymore, we are sticking up for ourselves.

B. theyy are praying marching singing. Martin Luther kind jr is speaking up for them. They have waited 100 years to be treated equally, told never, maybe then wait.

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AC mood?

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urgent, demanding

(NOW!)

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name some devices in AC

allusion

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Allusion ( to places in civil rights movement; montgomery: martin luther king led boycott there.
Greensboro- 4 students sat at lunch counter.
Birmingham- bomb in church killed 4 girls
Selma- King led 5 day march to protest desicrimination in voter registration

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ac
Free verse? rhyme?

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FV; not same beats per line. Not same amount of words

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repitition

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now, walk, ( imparitave and short

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Imagery;

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sight ( kitchens balconies bread lines) kneel march ride, how bad they were treaded.

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metaphor of generation

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a new wind blew-> that voice-> wind blows everywhere. wind-> bird

Cant turn this tide.... you cant turn back the tide, you cant turn them back

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chain gangs,= literal

but in line 22 she wasnt litera.. saying we wont wait anymore
we have to keep going till chain is gone

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X

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Theme of AC

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whites have been treating Africans bad and that needs to stop.

* when times are hard.. speak up and have a voice

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diff message to blacks and whites in ac.
blacks:
whites:

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b: keep trying, persevre

w: we arent waiting an longer, you cant stop us

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you understood...

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march, walk ride sing kneel,

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economy sentence

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short, but to the pioint. like the economy.. you try to save room and get as much in as possible

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Loss Speaker?

TO anyone?

what person?

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No

No

3rd person

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setting: (loss)

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Evening; Windy day; spring-fall?

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what are "lossed in poem"

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sun
daisies
Petals

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what do verbs in loss do?

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fall
lose
turn
lift
float

( actions of petals)

its the persons progressions

relate to a persons emotions through a loss

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Mood of loss

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Uplifting

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Theme of loss?

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things can change quickly, if something bad happends you have to go on, let it go, move on

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fig language in loss

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daisys looses rigourous attention, half wild with loss

imagery- sun down, petals blown off, etc

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miss rosie... whats diff about poem?

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no ending puncitation, lines all diff lengths, not reguular, free verse

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MROSIE

nattorator:
person:

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1. someone watching miss rosie. addressing person she is watching

2. 1st person

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setting: MR
significant?

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1. Georgia ( south)
2. miss rosie was a southern bell

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how does MR peom mean?

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commenting on miss rosies looks. how poorly she is dressed, is sick of the way mR is living

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Theme of miss rosie

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nothing lasts forever, esp beauty

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free verse? ( mr)

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yes,

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similie- wrapped of like garbage

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dirty, smell, not valued by society,

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describe mr

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toes cut out of shoes, sitting, al she does all day, dirty

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waing for her midn like last weeks grocery

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grocery= necessisty for life, next week is gar away, her mind is not coming back soon. maybe brain damage

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metaphor, miss rosie

wet brown bag of a woman

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when wet, they tare, not useful, strength
or her skin is wrinkly and oily, greasy black woman.

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"i stand up through your destruction"

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she is a person,.. just as she was a georgia rose... ** NOT LETTING IT HAPPEN TO ME**

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roses smell good, and ar vaulable

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she doesnt smell good, not valuable anymore

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Mood of MR

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brudially honest, yet caring

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how are the clouds described as a metaphor

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horses

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narrator:
Addressed:

night clouds

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someone below clouds, watching them, cheering them on, to move quickly

adressing the flying Mares

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setting
of night clouds

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night time

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telling the clouds to move quickly bc

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the sun will come out and destroye them

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Establish the theme of night clouds

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A. Strain your utmost. Do as much as you can and be free before you die
B. There are destructed forces in the world so it is important to always live life to the fullest. Do your best. Try your hardest.

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A. Metaphor
1. Comparing mare (female horse) to clouds
2. Horses are fast, noble, strong
3. Moving clouds, gently moving
B. Imagery
1. Horses standing on their hind legs (maybe scared of thunder)
2. Tint of green when storming (before a storm gets a little green)
C. “scatter the milky dust of stars”
1. When horses run it sometimes make the gravel or dirt scatter
2. Milky way
D. “fly, mares”
1. When flying it goes fast
2. Example: that car is flying.
E. Sun is compared to a tiger
1. Leaping—sun gradually comes up and tigers try to sneak up on things too
2. Color

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oweowkweokwojgra

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narrator of Gen?
to whom?

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person being addressed and narrator; not specific ppl

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narrorator is what in gen?

Person

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Great Oak (older)

Beech tree ( Young)

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Setting of gen?

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nature

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what deos gen mean?

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describing other person to beech tree and desribes him/herself as oak

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no metere and no rhyming and free verse could mean

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the freedom of the younger

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similes:

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the stem, still developing no strong, comes for tree as a child comes from mom. straight swatings, sometimes bending rules, strong,"you are like a stem"

Golden leaves; newness, youth, valuable,

" youre walk is like the blowing beech tree on a hill"- person learning to walkd,

hill- up and down, not

look at your sheet

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metaphor

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sky= blanket, hood covering up, safety.

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theme of gen

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although gen are diff, they are still the same, desire to guide and take care of your own. older always wiser

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3 quatraines1 couplet

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summers' day

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sonnet ballad.
( 14 lines, )

la belle dam is a ballad also

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euheurh

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SB- narrorator

to who?

1 or 3 person?

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wife who's hubby went off to war.

speaking to mom

1st person

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setting sB:

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Wartime

"love went off to war"

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mood:sb

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sorrowful lamenting

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sb metaphors?

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lovers tallness- didnt litterally take tallness, they took strenghth, masculinity

-empty heart cup- her heart is empty

coquettish death- it is disrepsectful of life and her relationship with husband

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who wrote english sonnet

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williams shakespeare

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free verse?/ sb

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yes

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Theme/.

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war can interupt relationships and cause obsicles.

bonnet sallad

war can cause person to e resentful, feaful of death, brace yourself

war is cruel

war brings out worst in ppl

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setting of oh what is that sound?

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Revolutionary WAR, small town,

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narrorators

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Husband and Wife

woman speaks stanza 1 and 2.. and he answers in 3 and 4... then at the end he is gone and she answers.

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Dramatic poetry is oh what is that sound

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ererij

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man is worried? not?
women worried? not

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-not
-worried

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mood of owits

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suspensful

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man knows whats going on and makes excuses for wife so he can save himself

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XXXX

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what type rhyme
M or F?

ear, dear?

druming coming

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M

F


^^ goes back and forth like man and woman speaking go back and forth

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specific meter in owits?

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yes, stressed unstressed. soudns like the drumming

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repeititon

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o what
o why
dear- ( not loving way tho)

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their eyes are burning

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metpahor, imagery

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broken lock, he light, houses,

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imagery

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Theme of OWITS?

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some love ones will betray youo when in trouble. How far yould you go to save yourself

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Point of view of LA BELLE

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1st
diff "I" in line 9 than in line 13

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who is the narrator?
\
to whom

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the person speaking to knight

the knioght

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Setting of La belle

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lake, winter, end of fall, desolate, middlee ages, england?

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what is on knight?

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lily- white pale

rose- his color is fading like a rose

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theme of la belle

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A. You can’t cheat death, death is always there. Youth and beauty done last. Death can be sudden.

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Also notice that narrator doesn’t come back at end. The woman speaks a strange language, and in the beginning it was spring and the end winter=ishh

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ekrerjeirej

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A. Rhyms: 2nd and 4th line in each stanza
B. Rhthym: 1st and 3rd- longer. 2nd and 4th- shorter.. but not always
C. Ballad- songlike: rhythm: meter: rhyme: tells story. Has 4 lines. Doesn’t have A B A C rhyme scheme though because the 2nd and 4th line rhyme. Art ballad.
D. Repetition= 1st and last stanza
E. Symbols= rose= beauty= fading and dying. Plant, lily= pale/death etc
F. Metaphor: lily; really isn’t a lily on head and it is pale like head. Rose also
G. Wild eyes, pale kinds and princesses, food, plants,
H. Foreshadowing: death=paleness, life gone, harvest done, withering
I. Narrative poem: setting, conflict= knight vs. la belle dan sans merci. Antagonist (lover) protagonist (knight) plot, point of view ( 1st p) minor: stranger (narrator) kings, princess, warriors ( great men but aren’t anymore to their trickery.

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eroekeorke

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main idea of poetry

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impossible to define what it is

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what types of responses does poetry evoke?

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1. Intellectual
2. emmotional

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4 ways poetry is diff than prose

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1. economy
2. imagery
3. rhythm
4. what is sounds like

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I.Establish the narrator
of fish

what person

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A. First person
B. A person who is fishing

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II.Establish a setting if possible

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A.Lake or pond wherever they are fishing
B.Fishing boat, probably small, dirty water in the bottom of it
C.No particular time

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V. “How” does the poem mean? (What literary techniques does the poet use to help his readers experience her poem?)
A. Imagery
1. 1st
a. Skin “ancient wallpaper”—simile
b. Rosette—metaphor
c. White sea-lice—directly describing
2. 2nd
a. Flesh to feathers—simile
b. Swim bladder to peony—simile
c. Colors—red, black, white, pink
3. 3rd
a. The irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil—metaphor
b. Cloudy scratchy glass (eyes)
4. 4th
a. Fish hooks hanging from his lips like medals because he accomplished something from those battles
b. Grim, wet, and weapon like—simile comparing hooks to weapon
5. 5th
a. Victory fills up the boat—victory of fish overcoming all those battles
b. Respect for the fish
B. Free verse

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X

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VI.Establish the theme
fishhyy

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A. Sometimes when people fight hard enough you get rewarded
B. If you look into nature a little deeper you can see something else you haven’t seen before
C. Venerable people deserve our respect.
a. If you look deep enough you can see things you have never seen before

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Sonnet has 14 lines written in iambic pentameter .

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summer day

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narrorator of summ day
to who

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I. Narrorator: Speaker= first person, (I)
Talking to loved one.
He expresses his feelings to her.
But love one isn’t reading this we are.
Read to love one in the future.

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setting of summer

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II. Setting: maybe summer. ANYTIME

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what does last couplet mean in sumer mean/.

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Last Couplet. (KNOW THIS)
As long as people are still alive and breathing and can read this poem,
Our beauty will last forever in this poem
We are better than summer… because we will last forever.
She is immortalizing her in this poem.

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lit terms of summ day

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How does it mean?!
Line 4- summer is compared to a lease ( like a building)
Eye of heaven- sun personification
And line six ( sun ) his golds complextion
COmplextion dimmed= sunny day
Fair days can turn into a bad day.
Line 9= thy eternal summer= her beauty wont fade.
( so does line 10)
Line 11= personification- No shall Death brag thou wanders’t in his shade= death cannot brag. Wandering in his shade suggests that if you wander in his shade you die or are close to dying.
12- line of time will grow.. and you grow toward eternity.
You aren’t going to die.

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summer day theme

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**Through litereature someone could be immortalized. **

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is comparison good?

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no, because she is better than a summers day

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speaker of auto wreck

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I. Narrator: Witnesses of car crash
( 2nd stanza it has speaker) .. we were deranged walking among the cops.

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setting of aw

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*Modern times, Specifically at the scene of a car accident, Street.

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fig of speech of Aw

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Figures of speech:
Imagery- ( 1st stanza) Soft silver bell, beating beating ( sound image ) and Alliteration.
Simile= pulsing out red light like an artery ( talking about red lights of the ambulance…)
All figures have to do with medical problems and injuries.
Ambulance at top speed floating down- metaphor- saying that the ambulance is going so fast and he is in a daze so it seems fast…. Just like wings of a heavy curves.
Brakes speed and enters crowd- stops quickly
Line 8= personification. Doors could leap and empty light
People in accident described mangled
Line 10= and stowed into the little hospital. (calling ambulance a little hospital)
Line 11= then the bell, breaking the hush, tolls once ( sound imagery)
First last lines= ambulance is leaving when doors are put in and forget to put in doors

Empty locusts shells is missing shells= like how people are missing out of cars. METAPHOR.

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continued imagery in aw

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Describes himself deranged(weak blur)
Cops- large and compose…not taking it to heart.
Cops are making notes and one is washing away blood, one hangs a lantern

Line 18= pond has a lot of water… blood is everywhere and there is a lot.Metaphor; Hyperbole.
lIne 20= hanging lanterns onto the wrecked car and the car wreck is wrapped around the pole = like how locusts cling to it.
Empty locusts shells is missing shells= like how people are missing out of cars. METAPHOR.

3rd stanza:
Our throats were tight as tourniquets= comparing throats to tourniquets. Similar= both tight. Alliteration.. tight as tourniquets. You cant breath or swallow when throat is tight.
Our feet were bound with splints- metaphor- they cant move their feet because they are shocked
Like convalescents intimate and gauche, - they are close but awkward. Convalescents is a time to get better. They are recovering from the car crash.
In line 25 and 27 they are getting better … they smile and talk to each other and the traffic is moving. They cant leave.
Touching a wound that opens to our richest horror- talking about when you have a scab and it is touching your worst horror, they cant stop picking it.. even though it hurts them. Watching the accident is like picking at a wound and once its picked… our worst horror comes.
Who will die? Who will live? Who is guilty?  Who’s fault was it? What did the person do wrong? If person ran red light… I won’t run it… so I’m safe. (what people think)

Last stanza- about rhyme or reason in life

If you get cancer- you have it (simile= simple as a flower)
Explanation in war=
Even still birth has science
Accidents make imagination go wild.
Describes people in medical term metaphors

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theme of aw

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Theme: Death can be sudden; life can change in a moment.
Even if you’re not directly involved in an event, it can affect you.
EVERYONE DIES, life is short.
Death is random.

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narrator of letter

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I. Narrator; Anybody who gets mail.. no person addressed

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setting of letter

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II Setting: door.. when old fashioned mail was more prevalent.

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theme of letter

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IV. Theme: annoyances will occur everyday. Little things will happen everyday… but it’s a part of life.

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setting of jazz fantasia

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city, not particular, 50 or 60 years ago, stl, new orleans, JAZZ CLUB IN A CITY

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narrator of jazz
to whome?

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person SPEAKING to musicians telling them what to do, encouraging them,

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onomonopia in jazz

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sling, ooze, husha husha hush, bang, hoo hoo hoo, drum, batter

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alliteration in jazz

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drum on your drums batter of your banjos

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imagery in jazz-

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motorcycle cop, male 2 ppl fight, steam boat

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Theme of jazz

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music can reflect mood