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poetry test 2/15/12

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The Tyger
By William Blake, Lyric
A Poison Tree
By William Blake, narrative
The Chimney Sweeper
By William Blake, dramatic
She Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron, lyric
I wandered as Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth, narrative
Whoso List to Hunt
By Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sonnet: Petrarchan
Amoretti: sonnet 75
By Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 18
By William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Sonnet 130
By William Shakespeare, pointing out her every flaw
Ode to the West Wind
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman, dramatic
Because I could not stop for Death
By Emily Dickinson, Personified Death
After a Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
By Emily Dickinson, Lyric
The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams
In a Metro Station
By Ezra Pound
Dream Boogie
By Langston Hughes, dramatic, like a conversation
Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes, dramatic, harlem renaissance
elegy
a lyric on occasion of death
assonance
repitition of vowels between consonants
Lyric
Short, meant to be sung, about a subject, poets emotions, abstract, closely identified with poet himself
Narrative
tells a story (Plot, characters, p.o.v, and setting)
Dramatic
(Tragedy) usually invented character, presented as a speech... or monologue
monometer
one foot
dimeter
two feet
tetrameter
four feet
imagist movement
poem using exact words, quick and to the point
Shakespearian sonnet
3 quatrains (set of four lines), couplet (two lines) abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan Sonnet
8-line octave and a 6-line seset (14 lines)
What line is the volta?
9
Spenserian sonnet
3 quatrains (set of four lines), couplet (two lines) abab bcbc cdcd ee
could be: cdecde/ cdcdcd/ cddcdd
seset

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