Before his execution for treason in the year 1618, Sir Walter Ralegh was best known in literature for his poems about love and break-ups.   As Ralegh was seen as a romantic, so his works followed the outline of romance.  This poem is no different, as you can tell by the title “Farewell, false love”.  In this poem, Ralegh writes about a time either he or someone else had just been finished …

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Whitman poem

‘The drama of consciousness [in Dickinson] moved to no resolving design. Consequently, where the critic can take a major Whitman poem as symptomatic of the whole work, he must select contradictory fragments from here and there to pose the tensions which are the coherence of Dickinson’s work. ‘ Discuss Albert Gelpi’s account of the crucial …

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Free Verse A poetic form that avoids using fixed patterns of meter. Free verse often also avoids rhymes, but still may make use of other poetic techniques such as imagery and metaphor, as well as sound devices such as assonance and alliteration. Rhyme Having the same sound at the end of two or more words …

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17th Century Poetry

4 characteristics of metaphysical poetry colloquial, erudition, paradox, and metaphysical conceit “turbulent years” 1625-1660 Colloquial everyday “common” language Erudition requires great intellectual effort to understand Paradox apparent self-contradiction that reveals a kind of truth Metaphysical conceit an extended metaphor that makes a surprising or unexpected comparison John Donne The leading writer of the metaphysical poetry …

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Nature What theme links with innocence, religion and purity, especially in the poem the lamb, introduction and the echoing green Religion What theme links with the poems the lamb, the chimney sweeper, Holy Thursday and blake was influenced by this from a young age Childhood A theme throughout a lot of Blakes poetry, something we …

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figurative language language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words simile a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as. metaphor a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. metaphors do not …

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Poetry/Picture Books

Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson A Pizza the Size of the Sun Jack Prelutsky This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness Joyce Sidman Casey at Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 Ernest Lawrence Thayer We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart Walter Dean Myers The Polar …

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Arabic Poetry

What FORMAL ELEMENTS typified classical poetry (in a pattern established by the pre-Islamic ode)? HemistitchQafiya (end rhyme)Enjambment Enjambment each line is independent in meaning Qasida classical ode Qasida structure 1. Nasib2. Rihla3. Gharad Nasib Amatory preludespeaker recalls the love he leftsense of longing, nostalgia, anguish Rihla The journeyspeaker complains of fatigue and suffering on his …

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Modernist T.S. ElliotEzra PoundE.E. Cummings Imagist T. E. HulmeRichard Aldington Harlem Renaissance Langston HughesClaude MckayWeldon JohnsonCountee Cullen Beat Poetry DRUGS, SEX, GAY RIGHTS, BUDDHISMAllen GinsbergJack KerouacLawrence Ferlinghetti Confessionalists Sylvia PlathAnne SextonJohn Berryman Robert Lowell Black Arts Movement Imamu Amir BarakaGwendolyn BrooksNikki Giovanni Black Mountain School Denise Lebertov- Chicano Poetry Lorna Dee Cervantes-Juan Felipe Herrera- Mexican …

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who is the writer whose “poems (insofar as we can guess at their nature from the fragments) gives us the most vivid evocation of the joys and sorrows of love in all Greek literature”? Sappho of Lesbos who is [the only cosmic poet of the fifth century B.C.E. whose work has survived”? Aristophanes who’s is …

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the hours rise up putting off stars and it is dawn – The use of synecdoche through the word ‘hours’ induces the effect of the day seeming to be extended, this also avoids using the word ‘morning’ which would have had positive connotations associated with it- Metaphor on the word ‘stars’ as a symbol for …

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