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- Four Imagists
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Pound
Williams
Lowell
H.D. - Four writers of the Harlem Renaissance
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McKay
Toomer
Hughes
Cullen - Four Confessional Poets
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Sexton
Plath
Berryman
Snodgrass - "The Road Not Taken"
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Frost
about two roads and not being able to choose both; choose the path less taken - "Fire and Ice"
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Frost
end of the world; fire and ice are equally destructive - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Frost
stopping in the middle of nowhere to watch snow; horse thinks it's weird; still has a long way to travel - "After Apple-Picking"
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Frost
long after apple-picking is done, it absorbs the mind - "Mending Wall"
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Frost
about a wall between neighbors that hunters knock over and once a year the neighbors fix - "The Death of the Hired Man"
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Frost
Mary, Warren, Silas
Silas ditched Warren and now has come back to die - "Chicago"
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Sandburg
gives many names to workers in Chicago; about things workers do; epithets - "Prayers of Steel"
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Sandburg
a prayer from steel to God about the many things it could be made into - "Grass"
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Sandburg
no matter what happens, grass always grows over it and makes people forget about it - "In a Station of the Metro"
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Pound
The apparitoin of these faces in the crowd;/Petals on a wet, black bough.
image of metro train in Paris - "Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord"
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Pound
O fan of white silk,/ clear as frost on the grass-blade,/ You also are laid aside. - "The Red Wheelbarrow"
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Williams
so much depends/ upon/ a red wheel/ barrow/ glazed with rain/ water/ beside the white/ chickens. - "Heat"
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H.D.
nothing can survive severe heat; image of being unbelievably hot - "Wind and Silver"
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Lowell
Greatly shining,/ The Autumn moon floats in the thin sky,/ And the fish-ponds shake their backs and flash their/ dragon scales/ As she passes over them. - "The Skaters"
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Fletcher
skaters on ice making marks in the ice - "Anecdote of the Jar"
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Stevens
a jar on a hill in TN wild gone tame, no bird or bush - "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
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Stevens
lots of color mentioned; white nightgowns; tigers in red weather; about dreams - "The Dance"
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Williams
vivid descriptions of flabby people dancing about; based on Brughel's painting : Peasant Dance; butts, run-on lines, not dainty people - "Poem"
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Williams
cat, closet, flowerpot - "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
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Pound
Li T'ai Po
about a young woman from an arranged marriage who fell in love with her husband and misses him when he is gone - "Poetry"
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Moore
she doesnt like it either; descriptions of what poetry can be; interested in genuine poetry; "do not admire wht we dont understand"; poetry should be easily understood; "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Eliot
epigraph from Dante's Inferno
talks about going places
and women talking about Michelangelo; a nervous man not sure of how to talk to women; at a masque - "Janet Waking"
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Ransom
Janet wakes and goes to see her chicken, Old Chucky, and sees him die of a bee sting; exaggerated to make funny - "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
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Ransom
tom boy who liked to chase geese died; they are at her funeral - "God's World"
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Millay
talks about how beautiful the world is - "On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven"
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Millay
loves the music - "Ars Poetica"
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MacLeish
"the art of poetry"
talks about what a poem should be; original by Horace; "A poem should not mean/ But be" - "The End of the World"
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MacLeish
first talks about a circus then the big tent flies off and everything is dark and silent - "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
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Cummings
anyone and noone
phrases mean passage of time
life goes on - "pity this busy monster,manunkind"
- Cummings
- "The Tropics of New York"
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McKay
talks about fruit; sad because it was no more - "November Cotton Flower"
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Toomer
cotton; descriptions of random things - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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Hughes
talks about many rivers that blacks have been around - "As I Grew Older"
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Hughes
talks about his life - "Any Human to Another"
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Cullen
talks about friends and arrows men and grief - "From the Dark Tower"
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Cullen
many negative words - "Very Like a Whale"
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Nash
alludes to many works of literature; metaphor and simile - "Why Boy Came to Lonely Place"
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Warren
a journey is talked about - "The Unknown Citizen"
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Auden
To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State
nothing was known of the man; was he happy? - "The Pike"
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Roethke
peaceful scene then pike strikes; "A thrashing-up of the whole pool/ The pike strikes" - "Elegy for Jane"
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Roethke
My Student, Thrown by a Horse
description of girl; thrown from horse - "Auto Wreck"
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Shapiro
describes how awful auto wrecks are - "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
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Jarrell
hunched in a small place; killed; remains are washed out bc they are so destroyed; most famous WWII poem; bomber jacket - "In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father"
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Brooks
July 20, 1883-November 21, 1959
talks about father's love; shes missing him, but knows that hes not suffering anymore - "The Explorer"
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Brooks
frayed hope; tatters; nervous affairs; griefs; choices; a literal one but the human mind is represented - Three Fugitive Poets
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Ransom
Warren
Tate - "The Fog"
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Sandburg
The fog comes/one little cat feet./ It sits looking/ over harbor and city/ On silent haunches/ and then moves on. - lived in Chicago, Ill.
- Sandburg
- associated with Chicago School
- Sandburg
- son of Swedish immigrant
- Sandburg
- born in Galesburg, Ill.
- Sandburg
- studied and lectured on Whitman
- Sandburg
- wrote about common people confidently
- Sandburg
- The People, Yes
- Sandburg
- biographer of Lincoln
- Sandburg
- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
- Sandburg
- won Pulitzer for biographies on Lincoln
- Sandburg
- traveling folk song singer
- Sandburg
- Chicago Poems
- Sandburg
- wrote for Chicago's Daily News
- Sandburg
- The American Songbag
- Sandburg
- Always the Young Strangers
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Sandburg
autobiography -
four chief principles: focus on image, use of the language of common speech and always the precise word, creation of new rhythms, and complete freedom and choice of subject; first innovative
movement; came from haikus - Imagism
- born in Reading, PA
- Stevens
- wrote poetry as an undergraduate
- Stevens
- newspaper reporter in NY
- Stevens
- joined Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, became VP
- Stevens
- Harmonium
- Stevens
- Collected Poems
- Moore
- The Comedian as the Letter C
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Stevens
about an imaginary poet - "Le Monode de Mon Ode"
- Stevens
- "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks"
- Stevens
- "The Emperor of Ice Cream"
- Stevens
- born in Rutherford, NJ
- Williams
- pediatrician
- Williams
- Paterson
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Williams
about Paterson, NJ- a manufacturing town - Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
- Williams
- founder of Imagism
- Pound
- born in Hailey, Idaho
- Pound
- editor of Eliot's The Waste Land
- Pound
- Hugh Selwyn Muaberley
- Pound
- The Cantos
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Pound
more than 800 pages; mix of history, political and economical theory, art, philosophy, personal confession, and allusions to foreign language and literature - career ended because of favorability of Mussolini on the radio
- Pound
- indicted for treason and arrested
- Pound
- confined without trial in St. Elizabeth's Hospital but released bc of literary community
- Pound
- lived in Italy
- Pound
- librarian in NYC
- Moore
- lived in Brooklyn, NY
- Moore
- spent time at Bronx Zoo
- Moore
- liked Baseball, esp the Dodgers
- Moore
- editor of the Dial
- Moore
- most prominent poet of 20th century
- Eliot
- gave up US citizenship to become British
- Eliot
- went to Harvard
- Eliot
- Prufrock and Other Observations
- Eliot
- published in The Harvard Advocate
- Eliot
- The Waste Land
- Eliot
- Ash Wednesday
- Eliot
- Four Quartets
- Eliot
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Eliot
- The Cocktail Party
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Eliot
dramatist - won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948
- Eliot
- "Renascence"
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Millay
wrote at 19
an awakening to life - won Pulitzer Prize for The Harp-Weaver
- Millay
- went to Yale for 2 years, but graduated from Harvard
- MacLeish
- won Pulitzer Prize for Conquistador
- MacLeish
- was an adviser to FDR
- MacLeish
- J.B.
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MacLeish
modern version of Job, play - Herakles
- MacLeish
- Three things different about Cummings' poetry
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punctuation
capitilization
syntax- use and putting together of words - was a painter
- Cummings
- E. E. Cummings, E.E. stands for..
- Edward Estlin
- born in Cambridge, MA
- Cummings
- father was a Harvard professor
- Cummings
- volunteered for Amulance Corps. in France
- Cummings
- unjustly imprisoned for treason in French concentration camp
- Cummings
- The Enormous Room
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Cummings
prose about being in French concentration camp - started the Harlem Renaissance
- Johnson
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Johnson
- born in Jamaica
- McKay
- oldest writer of the Harlem Renaissance
- McKay
- Cane
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Toomer
unusual novel - leading writer in the Harlem Renaissance
- Hughes
- had odd jobs such as working in a DC hotel
- Hughes
- The Weary Blues
- Hughes
- known for a series of sketches about Jess B. Semple
- Hughes
- most influential writer
- Hughes
- Opportunity
- Cullen
- known for light, humorous verse
- Nash
- first poet laureate of US
- Warren
- poet laureate
- a poet whose job is to write about whatever is going on
- current poet laureate
- Kooser
- won Pulitzers for All the Kings Men, Promises, and Now and Then
- Warren
- All the King's Men
- Warren
- Promises
- Warren
- Now and Then
- Warren
- had red hair
- Warren
- born in Gutherie KY
- Warren
- went to Vanderbilt U
- Warren
- born in England and lived their for 32 years
- Auden
- W.H. Auden, W. H. stands for...
- Wystan Hugh
- became an American citizen in 1946
- Auden
- won Pulitzer for The Age of Anxiety
- Auden
- The Diner (artwork)
- Segal
- varsity tennis coach
- Roethke
- Open House
- Roethke
- won Pulitzer for The Waking
- Roethke
- born in Nashville, TN
- Jarrell
- first African American to win Pulitzer
- Brooks
- won Pulitzer for Annie Allen
- Brooks
- A Street in Bronzeville
- Brooks
- sets most stories in Bronzeville
- Brooks
- Maud Martha
- Brooks