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Poetry Midterm

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Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Elliot
Musee des Beaux Arts
W.H. Auden
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Narcissus and Echo
Fred Chappell
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Resume
Dorothy Parker
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Walk Whitman
The Tyger
William Blake
Counting the Beats
Robert Graves
Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
William Shakespeare
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
conventions
established techniques
English Sonnet
14 lines/ iambic/ finishes with heroic couplet
Italian Sonnet
Set rhyme for first eight lines/ free form for last six lines
Octave
8 line stanza
sestet
6 line stanza
villanelle
6 rhymed stanzas with two recurring lines throughout the poem
sestina
6 end-words are used repeatedly throughout the poem but in a different context each time
Lyric
Short poem expressing feelings
Narrative Poetry
Character is speaking, many times through a dramatic monologue
Alliteration
successive sounds
Assonance
Refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming
Rime
You is A wiz
Rhythm
Recurrance of stresses and pauses
Meter
Stresses at fixed intervals
Closed form
Follows a set form
Sonnet
14 Lines; Lyric; Many times in iambic pentameter

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