English- Poetry
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- Emily Dickinson
- isolated, used capitalization and dashes, published 7 (anonymously) during her life, wrote 1775, used exact and slant/approximate line
- I Hear America Singing
- by Whitman, celebrates America's unyielding, indomitable spirit, looks at individuals as what they offer to the whole
- Simile
- comparison using like or as
- Onomatopoeia
- a word that represents a sound (ex: buzz)
- SOAPS
- subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker
- poem that mourns the loss of something (ex: O Captain! My Captain!)
- Elegy
- death, solitude, consciousness, the soul, life, nature, and God
- Topics of Emily Dickinson
- TP-CASTT
- title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shifts, title, theme
- vowels are similar but not identical
- Slant/Approximate Rhyme
- Exact/Perfect Rhyme
- consonants change, vowels don't
- Free Verse
- poetry with irregular meter or line length, recreates the cadences of natural speech
- Metaphor
- comparison not using like or as
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- by Whitman, compares a spider to the soul
- The Good Gray Poet, The Bard of Democracy, abolitionist, used free verse
- Walt Whitman