10th- Ms. Vickery Poetry Test

Who created Sonnet 18?

Shakespeare

Imagery in "Sonnet 18"?

Shakespeare discusses the "darling buds of May" shaking in the summer's "rough winds". The ability to read the word "rough" and imagine how the winds feel against the skin is what makes this type of description imagery.

How did each man approach death? "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Some of the men accepted there fate while others did not.

What sonnet does Queen Elizabeth know?

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 18 is the first poem in the sonnets not to explicitly encourage the young man to have children. The "procreation" sequence of the first 17 sonnets ended with the speaker's realization that the young man might not need children to preserve his beauty; he could also live, the speaker writes at the end of Sonnet 17, "in my rhyme." Sonnet 18, then, is the first "rhyme"—the speaker's first attempt to preserve the young man's beauty for all time. An important theme of the sonnet (as it is an important theme throughout much of the sequence) is the power of the speaker's poem to defy time and last forever, carrying the beauty of the beloved down to future generations.

Extended Metaphor "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Stages of Life

Summary of "Road Not Taken"

The Road Not Taken Summary is a poem that describes the dilemma of a person standing at a road with diversion. This diversion symbolizes real-life situations. Sometimes, in life too there come times when we have to take tough decisions. We could not decide what is right or wrong for us.

"Portends a horrific future." "The Second Coming"

The Second Coming of Christ (aka. the end of the world)

"Yet centuries and yet seems shorter than a day" "Because I Could Not Stop For Death?

The narrator life passing before her eyes.

Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

quintains

The poem consists of four stanzas with five lines each. These are called quintains.

Summary of "Mother to Son"

The poem is about a mother giving advice to her son about the challenges of life. It also illustrates how sometimes life becomes hard, but you should never give up. She uses imagery of the crystal stair and repetition in repeating she's still climbing.

"Death be not proud" Summary

The poet presents an unconventional view of death. By addressing the poem to death, Donne says that Death should not feel proud of itself. Death is neither frightening nor powerful although some people have called it so. It has no power over the soul which is immortal (Dwells with famine, kings, war, and desperate men.)

The word "sigh" conveys what feeling? "Road Not Taken"

The speaker is actually using the word "sigh" to demonstrate that he wishes he could travel both roads instead of just one.

What is a couplet?

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme Couplets are usually seen in English sonnets. This final couplet allows for a further shift in the poem, this time to state, as clearly as possible.

Who created "The Second Coming"?

W.B Yeats

Figurative language

Words or a phrase that has a meaning that is different from the literal meaning

iamic pentameter

a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables eached followed by an unstressed syllable

Allegory

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Iambic foot

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Extended Metaphor in "Mother to Son"

obstacles in life

Slant rhyme

rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme

iamic meter

unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Blank verse

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Are you tired?

yes

Contains ... personification - metaphor - symbolism

"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

"Blinding sight" "Do not go gentle into that good night"

"Blinding sight" meaning they get it and know that they are dying.

Written during the Harlem Renaissance

"Mother to Son"

Which poems contain literary apostrophe?

"Mother to Son" and "Death be Not Proud"

Contains contradictions in its description of the woods and Contains imagery of the woods.

"Road Not Taken"

Uses metaphors, such as "tacks" and "bare floors"

"Road Not Taken"

("Sonnet 18" ) Extended metaphor - compared with what?

"Shall I Compare thee to a summer's day?" The most prominent figure of speech used in "Sonnet 18" is the extended metaphor comparing Shakespeare's lover to a summer's day throughout the whole sonnet.

Hyperbole in "Sonnet 18"

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." The line exaggerates the purpose of the poem, claiming it has the ability to make its intended reader live on for eternity. This assumption that his sonnet will be read for as "long as men can breathe or eyes can see" is an excellent example of hyperbole in "Sonnet 18".

Personification in "Sonnet 18"?

"Sonnet 18" personifies the sun in the sky, assigning it gender and saying "his gold complexion" is often "dimmed", complexion being an innately human term. Shakespeare also personifies death by capitalizing the word and claiming that Death will never "brag thou wander'st in his shade." Even the seasons are personified in Shakespeare's sonnet; they are said to have a lease on the year which has "all too short a date". The idea is that summer leases out its season and is gone too soon, while the speaker's figure will live on forever.

What poem is written in blank verse?

"The Second Coming"

Summary of the "Second Coming".

"The Second Coming" is one of W.B. Yeats's most famous poems. Written in 1919 soon after the end of World War I, it describes a deeply mysterious and powerful alternative to the Christian idea of the Second Coming—Jesus's prophesied return to the Earth as a savior announcing the Kingdom of Heaven.

What poems have Couplets?

("Death be not Proud") and ("Sonnet 18")

Speaks of "gossamer my gown, tippet only tulle" "Because I Could Not Stop For Death?

(The material/thin clothing)

Conceit

(an extended metaphor): an elaborate and surprising comparison between two apparently dissimilar things.

Metaphor

(comparison between two things)

Death Be not Proud (Sonnet 18)

14 lines

Sonnet

14 lines with a certain rhyme scheme

What is a octave?

8 line stanza The octave presents an argument or point to which the sestet then responds. The moment this response begins is called the poem's turn, or volta. The turn in this poem is subtle: the speaker simply intensifies the argument.

Villanelle

A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern

Extended Metaphor

A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

Simile

A comparison using "like" or "as"

"Shade" means what? ("Sonnet 18")

A continuation to be young.

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem

Metaphor

A metaphor is a comparison between things or people that does not need to include "like" or "as,

Rhythm and Blues

A pattern of rhythm is called meter.

Symbolism

A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Tetrameter

But this poem is in iambic tetrameter, which means that there are only four feet (tetra = four). If you read the poem aloud, you should be able to hear four distinct beats per line. It will sound roughly like this: da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM.

Historical context is overcoming prejudice, racism, especially Jim Crow era

Civil War was fought over slavery and when the North won they tried giving powers to Africans in the government. African Americans migrated looking for equality and after reconstruction came Jim crow laws. During the Harlem Renaissance African Americans were a prominent figure as Jazz and Blues were a big influence at the time.

In the end _______ shall die. "Death be not proud"

Death

Points to ________ as being a bully and should not be proud. "Death be not proud"

Death

summary of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Death is personified. The speaker and "Death" visit different stages of life in a carriage ride: school (childhood), fields of grazing grain (adulthood), setting sun (old age). The speaker wears lacy garments (her burial clothes). They stop before a house in the ground (grave). Finally, the speaker admits her centuries in the afterlife have seemingly lasted shorter than the day of the carriage ride.

What is the true purpose of putting/telling the different types of men. "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Death of his father

Major Themes in Emily Dickinson writings? "Because I could Not Stop for Death?

Death, Immortality, and Nature

Sestet

Diverges from the Petrarchan set-up. It rhymes:

Summary of "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is a 1951 poem by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Dedicated to his father, the poem is considered a son's plea to his dying father to maintain a zeal for life in the face of death. In a broader sense, the poem celebrates the vivacity and joy of human life despite its fleetingness.

Who created "Do not go gentle into that good night"?

Dylan Thomas

Extended Metaphor in "Do Not Go Gentle in that Good Night"

Each time the refrain death is coming closer.

Best known for using slant rhymes and capitalizing important letters?

Emily Dickinson

Poet was a woman who wore all white and was very shy

Emily Dickinson

Who created "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"?

Emily Dickinson

Octave and a setset with a couplet in "Death be not Proud"

Form "Death, not be proud" is a sonnet. It has two main sections: the octave and the sestet. This makes it look most like a Petrarchan sonnet. Based on its rhyme scheme, however, it can also be broken into three quatrains and a concluding couplet—which is more akin to the English sonnet.

Personification?

Giving human attributes to non-animated things.

Imagery

Imagery is any language that excites the senses and includes descriptors that can be smelled, touched, tasted, seen, heard, or otherwise sensed. (descriptive language)f

Poet was with the Metaphysical group.

John Donne

Who created "Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud"?

John Donne

Literary apostrophe / alliteration/ assonance/ consonance/repetition/ refrain/free verse/setting: metaphorical - describes American society in the early 20th century/visual

Langston Hughes

Who created "Mother to Son"?

Langston Hughes

Pentameter

Means that there are five "feet," or units of stressed and unstressed syllables, in the poem

What does "Spiritus Mundi" mean?

Noun. spiritus mundi. (sometimes capitalized) The spirit, outlook, point of view, or social and cultural values characteristic of an era of human history.

Sleeping aids work just as well. What are the sleeping aids called? "Death be not proud"

Opium and laudanum were made from poppies and during the 17th century were used as general-purpose pain killers, sleeping aids, a cure for coughs and scurvy and even for keeping children quiet.

Hyperbole

Over exaggeration

Who sings "Sonnet 18"?

Pink Floyd

What movie quoted "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Quoted in the movie Interstellar

English Sonnets

Refers to Shakespearean sonnets which became popular in Elizabethan era.

Italian Sonnets

Refers to Sonnets that come and were developed in Italy

Repetition

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

What is the purpose of repetition?

Repetition is the primary way of creating a pattern through rhythm. Meaning accrues through repetition. One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry.

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds within nearby words in which the preceding vowels differ. e.g milk and water.

Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds of words, e.g light and lime.

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds, e.g date and fade

"Danced in a green bay" Meaning? "Do not go gentle into that good night"

Represents Life

Rhyme Scheme (octave)

Rhyme Scheme" The rhyme scheme of the first 8 lines (the octave) is: ABBAABBA

Who created "The Road Not Taken"?

Robert Frost