Poetry1. This is Just to say Willam Carlos Williams a.

. Old man writes a letter to his wife about how he ate the last plum in the icebbox. He talks about how much he loved it. b. Asking for forgivness c. Realistic love poem d. 1920s 2. The Bridegroom a. Narative Poem & Lyric b. The girl goes through a change from being scared independent girl. c. An extended alluision to a folk tale The Robber Bridegroom Alexander Pushkin

3. The guitar Federico Garcia Lorca a. A guitar weeping (compared wind & water) b. Narative and lyric poem c. Its impossible to stop the guitar d. It weeps for warm southern sands and white camellias (*lost potential) e. It morns the arrown with out a target, the evening without morning, a & 1st bird dead f. Weeping guitar = broken heart 4. The Fish Elizabeth Bishop a. the author goes fishing and catches a fish that has been caught more than once b. this proves the fish is wise and she repects the wisdom of the fish. c. She compares the fish hooks to a beard of wisdom. & medals d. Uses imagery to describe the fish (speckles, etc.) e. Respects the fish 5. The Glory a. black guys play baseball after work (in dirt field) b. because they arent allowed in the major league. c. This is their escape from the work week. d. It helps them surive the work week** 6. Metephor a. compares the new day to a blank page in a book. b. Each day is unwritten, and has its new start. 7. The Road Not Taken a. when life comes to a fork in the road there are b. 2 choices: the path taken more often or the road not taken. c. The literary device is : Life road = Ext. Metephor. (Choosing) d. Looked at both: the one looked better because it was less traveld e. He wonders if he made the right choice and if he can go back f. It made a differnce but maybe no the happiest/best 8. Mother to Son a. comparing life to a staircase = ext. Metephor b. A black woman descibing slavery to her son c. Life Crystal not clear, pure, easy; hard times d. Dialect = uneducated= black & poor Yusef Komunyakaa

Eve Merriam

Robert Frost

Langston Hughes

9. Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night a. addressed kid father : encouraging to fight death. b. Uses light/dark; light = life dark = death 10. The Wind tapped like a tired Man a. the wind comes into the hosue as a guest; b. it leaves upset because she didnt offer him a seat c. Uses Rhyme scheme 11. Suscess is counted the Sweetest a. people who win a lot arent as apreicative as people who dont win a lot. b. people who dont win a lot value success more. c. Sucscess = nectar 12. The Red Wheel Barrow a. glorifying something simple: it has a simple style. b. Literary device= imagery.

Dylan Thomas

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Willam Carlos Williams

Poetry: Terms to know: Figurative language a language that is used imaginatively rather than literally to express ideas or feelings in new ways Figures of speech they make comparisons between dissimlar things Similie uses like or as to compare in terms of another Metephor speaking of one things in terms another Personification gives human traits to non-human things Imagery a discriptive langugage that creates vivid impressions Rhyme Scheme a pattern of rhyme at ends of poetic lines Alliteration the repetion of intial consonant sounds of words light lemon Assonance- vowel rhyme the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words Consonance the repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the sep vowels differ Narrative Poem poetry that tells a story, and has: plot, characters, and a setting Sonnet Form 14 line lyric poem w/ formal pattern of rhyme, rhythm & line structure