Poetry Unit Flashcards
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A Step Away From Them
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Frank O'Hara About: New York City
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The Goose Fish
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Howard Nemerov About: Two lovers, the moon, and the goose fish
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The Victor Dog
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James Merrill About: Vinyls, enjoying art
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Corsons Inlet
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A.R Ammons About: The beauty and changeability of nature, beach
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Clearances
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Seamus Haney About: His Mother
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An Arundel Tomb
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Phillip Larkin About: The lack of romance between earl and countess
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The Problem of Describing Trees
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Robert Hass About: Trees
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Saint Judas
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James Wright About: Hoodlums beating up a man; sonnet
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Parents
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William Meredith About: Parents growing old, coming of age
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Blackberry Picking
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Seamus Haney About: Blackberries, greed
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August
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Mary Oliver About: Black berries, three line stanzas
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Syllabus for the Dark Ahead
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Jehanne Dubrow About:
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Maps
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Yesenia Montilla About: Immigration, human attempts to own
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Darwinistic Logic on Unrequited Love
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Katie Willingham About: Technology, loss of connection
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That Heavy Bear that Goes With me
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Delmore Schwartz About: The body's disgusting needs/appetites for drugs, sex, food; body weighs the mind down
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Dead Leaves
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Georgia Douglas Johnson About: Dead Leaves, heartbreak- two quatrains
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First Light
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Chen Chen About: Immigration, Chinese Americans
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Good Hours
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Robert Frost About: No longer being welcomed in a community, winter, leaving and returning, lonesomeness
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Art
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Erika Jo Brown About: Art, Love, and serial misunderstandings
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He Said I wrote About death
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Kim Dower About: running over a bird, how life and death are not opposites of each other
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What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do
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Parneshia Jones About: Racism, immigration, unity, multiculturalism
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Violence, I know you
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Khadijah Queen About: Domestic Violence
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Change of Address
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Deborah Paredez About: Pain, physical therapy.. poem has no periods or commas until the end
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Nomenclatures of Invisibility
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Mahtem Shiferraw About: Refugees, immigration
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The Nail
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C.K Williams About: Brutality of humanity, dictators
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Sanctuary
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Jean Valentine About: Solitude
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This Handwriting Wears Itself Away
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Valerio Magrelli About: Wearing away, growing old
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I Love Uncertain Gestures
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Valerio Magrelli About: Uncertain gestures make people seem more human and less robotic
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In this Short Life that only Lasts an Hour
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Emily Dickinson Two line poem
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Little Exercise
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Elizabeth Bishop About: A storm, mangroves
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This Room and Everything in It
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Li-Young Lee About: Post-coital poem, reflecting on the beauty of the moment
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The Colonel
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Carolen Forche About: Latin American coups and dictators, violence, ears
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Allow Me
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Chungmi Kim About: Growing Old
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At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac
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Samiya Bashir About: Life and death, carousels
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No, Don't
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Elena Karina Bryne About: loneliness, animals
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Home-Coming
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Leonie Adams About: Returning to nature, identifying with a particular landscape
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds ex: but a better butter makes a batter better
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Allusion
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A reference to someone or something known from history, religion, etc
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Apostrophe
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A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object or the dead or absent ex: "twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what YOU are"
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds ex: men sell the wedding bells
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Caesura
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A pause or break within a line of poetry
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Cliche
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a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse
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Connotation
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The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase
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Consonance
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The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds ex: "great or good, kind or fair/i will never the more despair"
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Couplet
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Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
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Elegy
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A poem of mourning usually after someone dies
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Hyperbole
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A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration
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Lyric Poem
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A poem that does not tell a story but expresses a feeling
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Quatrain
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A poem consisting of four lines
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Slant Rhyme
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A rhyming sound that is not exact
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Scanning
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The analysis of a poem to determine its meter
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Synesthesia
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The juxtaposition of one sensory image with another
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Meter
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the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse (iambic or trochaic)
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Foot
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usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable
