English Unit 2 Poetry

Quatrain

-4 line stanza -Can be any pattern--aabb, abab, bbab

What do the details in this passage suggest are the reasons that the speaker associates quails with Indians? "A gathering of quail is called a bevy. A gathering of Indians is called a tribe. When quails speak, they call it a song. When Indians sing, the air is heavy with grief. When quails grieve, they lie down next to their dead. When Indians die, the quail speaks."

Both live together in groups and both grieve when one dies.

Are the following lines end-stopped or enjambed? "The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray"

Enjambed

How is a prose poem different from other poetry?

It doesn't have the line breaks most often found in poetry, but they contain other poetic techniques such as repetition or rhyme.

How does "Sonnet, With Bird" differ from a traditional sonnet?

It is not divided into stanzas and couplets

What is a free verse poem?

It is not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.

In "Fences," what point is the poet making when the mother repeats, "It's their beach. / It's their beach"?

It is sad to see poor people who don't feel they can use their own beach.

What is a way in which "Sonnet, With Bird" departs from traditional sonnet form?

Its fourteen lines run together without line breaks.

what kinds of poems are sonnet with bird and elliptical?

Prose and free verse poems

In "Elliptical," who are the speakers, and about whom are they speaking?

Society speaking about a group that they look down upon.

discuss how a poem is different than a traditional sonnet

Sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. Poem is a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction, rhyme, rhythm, and imagery

n "Sonnet, With Bird," what event causes the speaker great sorrow?

The death of the childhood friend he once visited.

What explains the implications of the ellipses, or set of three dots, that appear throughout "Elliptical"?

The statements are so predictable that they need not be completed.

. In "Fences," what is the reason the poet uses the title "Fences"?

To show the barrier between the tourists and the speaker and her family.

A traditional sonnet...

Uses three quatrains stanzas and a couplet

Are these lines enjambed? "Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality"

Yes

What is theme?

a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.

What is a sonnet?

a fourteen-line poem that contains three four-line stanzas and final two-line stanza

In "Elliptical," about whom could the speaker most likely be speaking?

a group it looks down on

rhyming couplet

a pair of lines that rhyme

which of these is a characteristic of a sonnet

a sonnet has 3 quantrains and a couplet.

Whom does the speaker meet in London? (sonnet with bird)

another Indian, a childhood friend

entitled

born into it, to have privileges

Theme of Sonnet with bird

cherish the ones you love before they are gone

What's the definition of enjambed lines?

do not end with a grammatical break, do not make full sense without the line that follows

Are the following lines end-stopped or enjambed? "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

end-stopped

Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare

focuses on the theme of old age. The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth. Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor. The poem uses natural metaphors of decline to struggle with the start of old age, and ultimately suggests that the inevitability of death makes love all the stronger during the lovers' lifetimes.

What poetic form is used for all three poems—"Sonnet, With Bird," "Elliptical," and "Fences"

free verse

In "Sonnet, With Bird," how do the speaker and his childhood friend feel when they meet again at the London pub?

happy

-En

in, into, or on

What's the definition of "end-stopped lines"

lines that complete a grammatical unit; they usually end with a punctuation mark, such as a comma or period

In "Sonnet, With Bird," how does the speaker feel in his London hotel?

loneliness

Free verse

no line breaks or specific rhyme scheme

what kind of poetry is fences?

not Prose poetry but it is still free verse poetry

Ellipses definition:

omission (often intentional) of words that would be needed for a thought to be complete

symbol of quail in sonnet with bird

quail symbolizes Indians living in groups and mourning the dead

What does the speaker's little sister do that causes the mother to react? (fences)

she wants to go on the beach

What does the speaker's brother do each day? (fences)

smooth out the sand

how does sonnet break the rules of a traditional sonnet

the answer is not it has a conversational tone.

What is denotation?

the dictionary definition/ meaning of a word

Phyme Scheme

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

What is the best reason behind the use of ellipses in "Elliptical"?

the statements are predictable and easy to fill in

Connotation

the way the word feels

interactions

the ways in which multiple people communicate

What pronoun appears in the first nine sentences of the poem? (elliptical)

they

From the details in "Fences," what can you infer about the turistas?

they are rich

Both "Sonnet, With Bird" and "Elliptical" don't have the basic features of traditional poetry but are classified as prose poems. Which characteristic shows why they are still considered poems?

they suggest meanings rather than stating them directly.

why did the author of elliptical end with "..." on every sentence.

they're confused or too hesitant

Why does the speaker go to London? (sonnet with bird)

to promote her new book

Perspective

way we see things, or point of view

How does each sentence of "Elliptical" end? (elliptical)

with a ...