Sample Prompts for Poetry
"Write an essay in which you compare & contrast the two poems & analyze the relationship between them."
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Terms to Know--
Click for on-line practice on some of the terminology below
Rhythm: Iambic / Trochaic / Spondaic / Anapest / Dactylic Meter: Monometer / Dimeter / Trimeter / Tetrameter / Pentameter / Hexameter / Septameter / Octameter Stanza: Couplet / Triplet / Quatrain / Quintet / Sestet / Septet / Octave |
Major Poets - Link to John Donne
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Link to Adrienne Rich
Post-war era whose works were radical in both free-verse form and feminist and political content.
Works include: "Living in Sin" / "Ghost of a Chance" / "Dreamwood" / "In Those Years" / "Afterward" In her words-- "A thinking woman sleeps with monsters." Adrienne Rich |
Emily Dickinson - link
Romantic inspired by the metaphysicals; she was posthumously published.
Works include: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" / "There's been a Death, in the Opposite House" / "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died" / "One dignity delays for all" / "Tell the truth, but tell it slant" / "There is no Frigate like a Book" / "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" / "I never saw a Moor" What she believed-- "Beauty is not caused. It is." Emily Dickinson |
William Blake - link
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