English Final
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- Modernism
- was an artistic and literary movement of the early 20th century that championed experimentation, technicality, primitivism, impersonalism, aestheticism, and intellectualism
- Home Burial
- Robert Frost; about a man not understanding why his wife was so terribly sad about her dead son, and also why she would not talk to him about it. ; he isnt affected by the fact that they can see the child's grave from a window but the wife i. Dramatic monologue
- "Somewhere i have never traveled Gladly beyond"
- E.E Cummings; a poem admitting love includes much experimentation; with form imagery, structure, puntuation, grammar, syntax, rhyme, meter, verse (admiration)
- "This is just to say"
- William Carlos Williams; simple poem about someone admitting to eating plums that were in a chestbox that belonged to someone else; was a note noted for its imagery
- The Lost Generation
- Post war writers that left a sense of dislocation and alienation. They felt the real America had been lost or dostorted.
- Imagist
- Poem; a lyric peom that presents a single vivid picture in words
- Stream of Conciousness
- writing that attempts to render the flow of feelings, throughts, and impressions, within the minds of characters
- "Mending Wall"
- Robert Frost;wall between his land and a neighbor. Does it really make a good neighbor or does in alienate? what do walls really achiecve
- Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- T.S. Elliot; dramatic monologue; speaker hesitates to express love; elliptical and allusive; his indecision with a lot of things
- The Red Wheelburrow
- William Carlos Williams; [imagist]; about a wheelburrow beside some chicken coop and wet with rain; noted for its imagery and free verse[word picture]
- Syntax
- The pattern of arrangement of words in a statement. Poets often vary the syntax of ordinary speech or experiment with usual syntactic arrangements
- "Grass"
- Carl Sandburg; Grass is the speaker; death buried in the cemetaries around the world;(let the grass do the work)