Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
... residents were still in bed and the factories had not yet stoked their fires and polluted the air with smoke. He and his sister, Dorothy, were crossing the bridge in a coach taking them to a boat for a trip across the English Channel to France. In her diary, Dorothy wrote: We mounted the Dover Coac ...
... residents were still in bed and the factories had not yet stoked their fires and polluted the air with smoke. He and his sister, Dorothy, were crossing the bridge in a coach taking them to a boat for a trip across the English Channel to France. In her diary, Dorothy wrote: We mounted the Dover Coac ...
Literary Term - Bean English and Technology
... A songlike poem that expresses the reader’s feeling—now we see it as a short poem which expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. A comparison of using two unlike things without using a comparison; a statement that one thing is something else which it is not (your fingers are ...
... A songlike poem that expresses the reader’s feeling—now we see it as a short poem which expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. A comparison of using two unlike things without using a comparison; a statement that one thing is something else which it is not (your fingers are ...
biglieri2 - Acsu Buffalo
... To comment upon Biglieri’s poetry is difficult, and can easily lead to a quote from his poetry to explain the comment. Biglieri’s poetry is “ written from the exact middle of nowhere.” is a quote from Peter Quatermain’s introductory remarks, but Quatermain is in fact quoting Biglieri himself, so we ...
... To comment upon Biglieri’s poetry is difficult, and can easily lead to a quote from his poetry to explain the comment. Biglieri’s poetry is “ written from the exact middle of nowhere.” is a quote from Peter Quatermain’s introductory remarks, but Quatermain is in fact quoting Biglieri himself, so we ...
Poetry Analysis: TPFASTT - duPont Manual High School
... difference; with your strong shield, protect me from all the pains of despair; calm my troubled mind; I promise to pay you back if you will do this. You can take from me my soft pillows and bed, my dark and quiet bedroom, the pleasant aroma of calming flowers and my own tired mind; and if these all, ...
... difference; with your strong shield, protect me from all the pains of despair; calm my troubled mind; I promise to pay you back if you will do this. You can take from me my soft pillows and bed, my dark and quiet bedroom, the pleasant aroma of calming flowers and my own tired mind; and if these all, ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Introduction to Poetry
... The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. ...
... The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. ...
Poetic Vocabulary Sampling Simile: A verbal comparison in which a
... Myth: A traditional story involving deities and heroes, usually expressing and inculcating the established values of a culture. Symbolism: an object, animate or inanimate, that points to a reality beyond itself (a tangible object that represents an intangible, often complex, concept). ex. A pu ...
... Myth: A traditional story involving deities and heroes, usually expressing and inculcating the established values of a culture. Symbolism: an object, animate or inanimate, that points to a reality beyond itself (a tangible object that represents an intangible, often complex, concept). ex. A pu ...
The Tides of “We Real Cool” by Juli Grace
... "We Real Cool" is not such a tough and morbid poem. Yes, the players have made decisions not embraced as model by society as a whole. But they know where they've been and what they're doing and where they're going. They have made choices and understand that those choices will have consequences. Thes ...
... "We Real Cool" is not such a tough and morbid poem. Yes, the players have made decisions not embraced as model by society as a whole. But they know where they've been and what they're doing and where they're going. They have made choices and understand that those choices will have consequences. Thes ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Introduction to Poetry
... The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. ...
... The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. ...
Lesson 61: Adjectives and the Nouns They Describe In the
... Try your hand below at writing a poem that does not rhyme, using an animal theme. Choose an animal. In the first stanza, tell something that shows us what the animal is, and what the theme of the poem will be. For example, if you look back to the poem you copied about the spider, you will notice tha ...
... Try your hand below at writing a poem that does not rhyme, using an animal theme. Choose an animal. In the first stanza, tell something that shows us what the animal is, and what the theme of the poem will be. For example, if you look back to the poem you copied about the spider, you will notice tha ...
Glossary of Poetic Terms
... contains caesuras in the middle two lines: He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand-like--just as I-Was out of work-had sold his traps-No other reason why. Closed form A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metric ...
... contains caesuras in the middle two lines: He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand-like--just as I-Was out of work-had sold his traps-No other reason why. Closed form A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metric ...
What is Poetry?
... Learn more about this topic! Each section gives more detail on one of the lyrics from the song. Read each section, and then respond by answering the question or taking notes on key ideas. ...
... Learn more about this topic! Each section gives more detail on one of the lyrics from the song. Read each section, and then respond by answering the question or taking notes on key ideas. ...
HBMS 8th lit. terms
... poem written in 5 lines, rhymed in the pattern of aabba, and having a definite pattern of rhythm ...
... poem written in 5 lines, rhymed in the pattern of aabba, and having a definite pattern of rhythm ...
Elegy:
... the same as, or rhymes with the last word of the first line. Lyric Poetry: A rather short poem concerning itself mainly with the speaker’s emotional state, thoughts, or feeling (in terms of a process). *Poems that are not narrative, didactic, dramatic, or satiric are lyric. Narrative Poetry: A poem ...
... the same as, or rhymes with the last word of the first line. Lyric Poetry: A rather short poem concerning itself mainly with the speaker’s emotional state, thoughts, or feeling (in terms of a process). *Poems that are not narrative, didactic, dramatic, or satiric are lyric. Narrative Poetry: A poem ...
Piano File
... wonder of the piano and its music. It still catches the speaker by surprise all those years later. ...
... wonder of the piano and its music. It still catches the speaker by surprise all those years later. ...
Poetry Explications
... The details To analyze the design of the poem, we must focus on the poem's parts, namely how the poem dramatizes conflicts or ideas in language. By concentrating on the parts, we develop our understanding of the poem's structure, and we gather support and evidence for our interpretations. Some of th ...
... The details To analyze the design of the poem, we must focus on the poem's parts, namely how the poem dramatizes conflicts or ideas in language. By concentrating on the parts, we develop our understanding of the poem's structure, and we gather support and evidence for our interpretations. Some of th ...
Poetry
... dark and deep” forest and by the sense of peace he finds there, so he pauses to watch the landscape, even if he should not stop really because the forest belongs to somebody else (“whose woods these are…”, “He will not see me…”). The repetition of the [s] sound in stanza 3 suggests the sound of the ...
... dark and deep” forest and by the sense of peace he finds there, so he pauses to watch the landscape, even if he should not stop really because the forest belongs to somebody else (“whose woods these are…”, “He will not see me…”). The repetition of the [s] sound in stanza 3 suggests the sound of the ...
Poetry - mssnyder8
... And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And ...
... And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Introduction to Poetry
... The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. ...
... The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley. ...
Poetry Terms - Learn District 196
... A "foot" is the basic unit of measure, usually containing 2 or 3 syllables, a combination of accented and unaccented. A foot must have an accent. It's like music, the accent is used instead of the beat to make the rhythm. Say the lines below out loud and listen to the accents: Dimeter: the line has ...
... A "foot" is the basic unit of measure, usually containing 2 or 3 syllables, a combination of accented and unaccented. A foot must have an accent. It's like music, the accent is used instead of the beat to make the rhythm. Say the lines below out loud and listen to the accents: Dimeter: the line has ...
poetry - CPalms
... Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall ...
... Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall ...
Allegory
... The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work, as, for example, Flannery O'Connor's ironic tone in her "Good Country People." See Irony. Trochee An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, as in FOOT-ball. Understatement/Litotes A figure of speech in which a wr ...
... The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work, as, for example, Flannery O'Connor's ironic tone in her "Good Country People." See Irony. Trochee An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, as in FOOT-ball. Understatement/Litotes A figure of speech in which a wr ...
Poetic Devices/Terms - Bremen High School District 228
... • Example: The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost (life is a journey) I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ...
... • Example: The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost (life is a journey) I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ...
Poetry
... Iliad and the Odyssey. The major Anglo-Saxon example is Beowulf. Ours is El Cantar del Mio Cid. The ‘literary’ or ‘secondary’ epic was modelled on the primary epic, and was the work of a learned refined writer. Examples are Virgil's’Aeneid in Italy and, in English literature, John Milton’s Paradise ...
... Iliad and the Odyssey. The major Anglo-Saxon example is Beowulf. Ours is El Cantar del Mio Cid. The ‘literary’ or ‘secondary’ epic was modelled on the primary epic, and was the work of a learned refined writer. Examples are Virgil's’Aeneid in Italy and, in English literature, John Milton’s Paradise ...