EXAM 2 – English – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Alexandra Robertson
The Secretary Chant
Marge Piercy
About feminism and how she no longer felt like a person but just a machine going through everything and doing everything she was suppose to loosing herself
About feminism and how she no longer felt like a person but just a machine going through everything and doing everything she was suppose to loosing herself
Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
, Father got up on Sundays to work and Sundays are suppose to be a day of rest, he felt he wasn’t appreciated; Father had a different way of showing his love and son regrets how he treated his father
Message: Taking things for granted will lead to regret
Appreciate the things people do for you
Speaker: The son of the Father
Love is expressed in mysterious ways.
, Father got up on Sundays to work and Sundays are suppose to be a day of rest, he felt he wasn’t appreciated; Father had a different way of showing his love and son regrets how he treated his father
Message: Taking things for granted will lead to regret
Appreciate the things people do for you
Speaker: The son of the Father
Love is expressed in mysterious ways.
Dog’s Death
John Updike
The dog dies in the arms of the man on the way to the vet, always trying to please the master he dragged himself the the potty mat and died with no warning from a ruptured liver
The dog dies in the arms of the man on the way to the vet, always trying to please the master he dragged himself the the potty mat and died with no warning from a ruptured liver
Oh, Oh
William Hathaway
William Hathaway’s Oh Oh is a joke poem. It shows you a scene of two young people who are probably in love doing slushy things at a level crossing while the train goes by. Once the train has gone by, they see a menacing group of Hells Angels waiting on the road in front of them.
Catch
Robert Francis
About the game of catch and throwing the baseball back in forth between two boys
About the game of catch and throwing the baseball back in forth between two boys
Magic of Love
Helen Farries
Happy mood throughout the poem love is magic. The author is stating how love feels in great detail. She uses different ways to tell how love feels.
Happy mood throughout the poem love is magic. The author is stating how love feels in great detail. She uses different ways to tell how love feels.
Love Poem
John Frederick Nims,
This poem expresses a man’s love for his wife, especially her clumsiness and her flaws.
This poem expresses a man’s love for his wife, especially her clumsiness and her flaws.
It’s the Law: A Rap Poem
S. Pearl Sharp
The poem talks about how bad the state of the USA is. It really focuses on how many laws we have on the books. It says we make laws for things we fear.
The poem talks about how bad the state of the USA is. It really focuses on how many laws we have on the books. It says we make laws for things we fear.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell
About the war and dying and just being hosed into the ditch
About the war and dying and just being hosed into the ditch
she being Brand
E.E. Cummings
All about a car and personifying the car itself
All about a car and personifying the car itself
Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles
Colette Inez
how when you are young you laugh things off that are very serious so that you can stay happy but when you get older you start to take the same situations much more seriously. An example is how as a kid the author would drive by a cemetery and laugh but now she would walk by a cemetery and know that some of the people she knew were buried there.
how when you are young you laugh things off that are very serious so that you can stay happy but when you get older you start to take the same situations much more seriously. An example is how as a kid the author would drive by a cemetery and laugh but now she would walk by a cemetery and know that some of the people she knew were buried there.
Hazel Tells LaVerne
Katharyn Howd Machan,
(SUMMARY: Frog comes up the toilet and asks cleaning lady to kiss her to make her a prince.
THEME: Passing up an opportunity because you don’t think you are worth it OR fairy tales never happen in real life.
USES: Incorrect grammar and no punc. to show voice, enjambment
TONE: bewilderment)
(SUMMARY: Frog comes up the toilet and asks cleaning lady to kiss her to make her a prince.
THEME: Passing up an opportunity because you don’t think you are worth it OR fairy tales never happen in real life.
USES: Incorrect grammar and no punc. to show voice, enjambment
TONE: bewilderment)
Latin Night at the Pawnshop
Martin Espada
Looking at the pawn shop and seeing how things changed when she looks and sees a salsa club and a night club with everyone dancing that used to be there
Looking at the pawn shop and seeing how things changed when she looks and sees a salsa club and a night club with everyone dancing that used to be there
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,
Robert Herrick
, tone: cavalier, spontaneous, in the moment
, tone: cavalier, spontaneous, in the moment
about: living life and making the most out of a day; carpe diem!; don’t let anything hold you back, no regrets
tarry- delay or linger
*quatrain
rhyme scheme and meter
“Then not be coy, but use your time; and while ye may, go marry; for having lost but once your prime, you may forever tarry.”
author: Robert Herrick (British cavalier poet)
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
, Seduction poem; saying if he had the world he’d praise her, love her, and take his time with her; she deserves it; she’s so beautiful; but time is passing by; beauty will disappear, no more sex; so let’s have sex now
, Seduction poem; saying if he had the world he’d praise her, love her, and take his time with her; she deserves it; she’s so beautiful; but time is passing by; beauty will disappear, no more sex; so let’s have sex now
Marvell Noir
Ann Lauinger
The analysis of the poem Marvel Noir by Ann Lauinger is based on the fact that Marvel’s lady is flirtatious and plays hard to get. Therefore, Marvel is cautioning the lady against these acts since they are not worth it.
The analysis of the poem Marvel Noir by Ann Lauinger is based on the fact that Marvel’s lady is flirtatious and plays hard to get. Therefore, Marvel is cautioning the lady against these acts since they are not worth it.
Last Night
Sharon Olds
Poem
William Carlos Williams
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold,
main idea: In his deep loneliness, Arnold realizes that his religion is fading, and juxtaposes the loss of his beliefs with the beauty and fading aspects of the beach. FREE VERSE
main idea: In his deep loneliness, Arnold realizes that his religion is fading, and juxtaposes the loss of his beliefs with the beauty and fading aspects of the beach. FREE VERSE
Green Chile
Jimmy Santiago Baca
poem of love and sacrifice, symbolized through two types of chile peppers
poem of love and sacrifice, symbolized through two types of chile peppers
Dulce et Decorum Est
tone: dark, angry, resentful, tragic, vindictive
about: experiences of war; war is not what it appears to be; and the realities of war
about: experiences of war; war is not what it appears to be; and the realities of war
“to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est”
author: Wilfred Owen
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound; contrast between nature and industrial world- people belong to both. emotion- a little sad
The Red Wheelbarrow
Williams, pretty scene- as if a photograph, shows that reality is as important as the meaning
This is Just to Say
William Carlos Williams, temptation, spiteful tone, not really apoligetic, about cheating or virginity, about plum. “Forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold”
From Macbeth
Losing his wife, William Shakespeare
you fit into me
Margaret Atwood (Fish hook in the eye, aka not at all)
The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet – metaphor for her literature as her children – proud mother
Pragmatist
Edmund Conti
To a Wasp
Janice Townley Moore
Wasp gets in the house and then is killed in the batter
Wasp gets in the house and then is killed in the batter
The Unkindest Cut
J. Patrick Lewis
play on words and paper cut hurts the worst
play on words and paper cut hurts the worst
How Poetry Comes to Me,
Gary Snider
about how he starts to write poetry
about how he starts to write poetry
Gary Snider
Margaret Atwood
the weather in february and wanting it to be summer
the weather in february and wanting it to be summer
Lightening Bugs
Ernest Slyman
All the bugs in the field like a bunch of pictures being taken and lights flashing
All the bugs in the field like a bunch of pictures being taken and lights flashing
Schizophrenia
Jim Stevens
Marks
Linda Pastan
A mother and wife being graded on everything she does until it is just to much for her to take any longer
A mother and wife being graded on everything she does until it is just to much for her to take any longer
The Clarinettis
Ruth Fainlight
A Nosty Fright
May Swenson
poem where all the words and letters are twisted
poem where all the words and letters are twisted
A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson
bird flew away poem about soft sounds
bird flew away poem about soft sounds
Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell
about how it is like to eat a black berry
about how it is like to eat a black berry
From “The Cataract of Lodore,”
Robert Southey
Occupation
Eliza Griswold
her job
her job
Song
John Donne
writing from prison about his death
writing from prison about his death
From An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope
about knowing what people think
about knowing what people think
The Pitcher
Robert Francis
Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry
Howard Nemerov.
Lyric.
Sparrows flying in precipitation, turning from rain to snow.
Lyric.
Sparrows flying in precipitation, turning from rain to snow.
alliteration
the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of nearby words: “descending dewdrops,” “luscious lemons.”
assonance
the repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words: “asleep under a tree,” “time and tide,” “haunt and awesome.”
consonance
an identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound: home, same; worth, breath; trophy, daffy. Consonance is a kind of near rhyme.
onomatopoeia
the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes: quack, buzz, rattle, bang, squeak, bowwow, burp, choo-choo, ding-a-ling, sizzle.
simile
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
metaphor
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
