Poetry 1-30 MAIN CONCEPTS (-7 already on AICE exam)

Author/ Background: William Blake. Had no children

Structure: 3 stanzas; 4 quatrians; POV: Third; ABAB

PREDOMINANT Literary Devices:

Juxtaposition: Pebble/Clod

Paradox: HEAVEN/HELL

Personification: “Love seeketh not itself to please,”

Alliteration: Clod of Clay

Symbolism: water symbolizes connection between two points

Theme: The Clod and the Pebble” offers two competing visions of love.

Plot:

• The first kind of love is based on selflessness, as represented by the personified Clod.

• The second is based on selfishness, as represented by the Pebble.

Background: Nobility, lied in the tower of London “little crooked women”

Structure: 1 stanza; AABB; iambic trimeter, 1st POV

Literary Devices:

Alliteration: “Fight a fiercer race” ; “If there the tim’rous”

Apostrophe: “What i would suffer for my love”

Hyperbole: Where all is wild” “While all around my eyes I cast”

Personification: low sun withdrawls his height

Visual imagery: Lines 3-6

Sibiliance: The softest moss…

Theme: Sacrifice for love; Some people are willing to go to the ends of the world if that means they can be with their loved ones and prove to them that they love them.

Structure:

Each stanza is a stage in relationship

• Stanza 1: before marriage

• Stanza 2: marriage

• Stanza 3: married life together

PREDOMINANT LITERARY DEVICES

Conceit: She was a phantom of delight

Simile: Her eyes as stars of twiglight; promises as sweet

Hyperbole: A perfect woman, all things else about her drawn

Metaphor: A lovely Apprition,

Anaphora:

List:

Plot: Throughout the poem the speaker continuously compliments his wife and expresses his admiration for her

Theme:

Structure: 1st person, two stanzas, no standard rhyme scheme (free verse), 27 lines, past tense in the first stanza and present in the last.

PREDOMINANT LIT DEVICES:

Visual imagery:

Personification:

Allusion:

Hyperbole: slashed and burned

Theme: How economic exploitation negatively impacts the working class

Plot: How this industry is bad

Background: Dilip Chetre (1990) From India

Structure:

• Free verse

• 24 lines

• POV: 1st

• 1 stanza

PREDOMINANT LIT DEVICES: Visual imagery, Personification, Polysyndeton, Simile

Gwen Harwood 1961: Used fake name to show gender hipocracy since she is a women

Structure:

14 lines, patriarchan sonnet, 3 stanzas, 3rd person POV

PREDOMINANT LIT DEVICES: imagery, dialogue, irony, asyndeton, Hyperbole

Background: 1990

Structure 6 sestets, 36 lines, 1st POV, starts with rhyme scheme and goes into a slant rhyme scheme.

TALK ABOUT TITLE

Predominant lit devices: Euphemism, Imagery, Metaphor, Similie, Anaphora

TALK ABOUT TITLE: the mother stood

Background: focususes on his own life experiences

1st section: dad has power, 2nd stanza mother has power

Structure: 1st POV, 3 quatains and 1 couplet, 14 lines shakespere sonnet, some rhyming

PREDOMINANT LIT DEVICES: imagery, Alliteration, Similie, Hyperbole

Background: Environmentalist, the first earth day

Structure: 6 quatrians, 24 lines, loose rhyme scheme, 1st person

Primary lit devices: personification, Imagery in first section, irony in the second section, metaphor, repitition

Background: He was imprisoned 1537-39 at Windsor Castle (very bougie) then again in 1546-47 in a worse prison.

Structure: 2 stanza, 14 lines Sonnet, Rhyme scheme: abab, alternating with couplet at the end

Lit devices: Alliteration, Imagery, Repitition, Sibiliance, Personification

Background: Never married but all of his poems are about a woman named Celia.

Structure:

• 24 lines

• POV: 1st person

• Iambic pentameter which separates it into couplets.

• 1 stanza

Lit devices: Personification, imagery (visual and auditory), hyperbole, Metaphor, Shifts

Background: Nature poet, nature is beautiful

Structure: Hypometric line (gone), 2nd POV, 3 stanzas, 45 lines, free verse

Predominant lit devices: alliteration, personification, hyperbole, Imagery (all), SIBILANCE, simile, assonance.

Structure:

• Rhyme scheme: loose rhyme (order in begginning, turn, chaos, then order)

• POV: 1st

• Lines 12

Background: Womens rights activist

Lit devices: Imagery (all), aliteration, Personification (life), Anastrophe

Background: Traveled the world on a ship, so he is very familiar with the ocean.

Structure: 4 septets

• 28 lines

• POV: 3rd person

• Rhyme scheme: aabbbcc

Predominant lit devices: Repitition, Rhetorical quesiton, Imagery, sibilance, Chiasmus, Personification

Structure: 4 septets, 28 lines, free verse, 1st person

Background: adresses WW2, Franco ruled spain, disputes with Hitler and Mussolini (ALLEGORY)

Lit devices: Imagery, Personification, Anaphora, Conceit,

Structure: 5 quatrains, 20 lines, 1st person, Iambic tetrameter, to iambic trimeter

Primary Lit devices: Imagery, hyperbole, zoomorphism, personification, simile

Structure: 1 octet, 1 sestet

• Sonnet

• POV: 3rd person omniscient

• No meter

• Rhyme scheme: 

  • 1st stanza: none

  • 2nd stanza: abc, abc

    • This symbolizes the transition from chaos→order.

Background: Lived through major world conflicts like WWII and the Vietnam War

• got jailed for protesting Vietnam War

Lit devices: Personification (love), Visual imagery, allusion, hyperbole, Paradox, synechdoche

Background: Singapore Education System, asian culture

Structure: 5 quatrains, 4 cinquains, 19 lines, 3rd POV, Mostly no rhyme scheme

REFERENCE TITLE

Lit devices: Asyndeton, slang, In media res, Circular poem, hyperbole, Imagery, anaphora

Background: from Zimbabwe and moved to the U.S.

• It used to be called Rhodesia b/c it was claimed by the British (Cecil Rhodes).

Structure:

•  Rhyme: free verse

• 32 lines

• 7 stanzas

• POV: 1st person

Lit devices: Anaphora, Enjambment, Synchdoche, Polysendeton, Metaphor

Structure:

• 3 quatrains

• POV: 1st

• Lines 12

• Alternating rhyme scheme

Background: The poet is 22 years old and wants to find love

LIt devices: Onomatopeia, Imagery, zoomorphism, apostrophe

Stucture:

• POV: 1st person plural

• 7 cinquains

• Blank verse, with alternating trimeter and pentameter

• (7 stages of life)

Background: He is a Victorian poet with a pessimistic view of life. He is someone who educates and guides others on social issues.

Lit devices: Anaphora, Hypohera, metaphor, synechdoche, allusion, Polysyndeton.

Background:

1790: Napoleon controls France and wants to take over England

Structure:

• POV: 1st

• Rhyme: loose rhyme

• Begins on the 3rd stanza out of 8 from the poem.

• Iambic pentameter

Lit devices: IN MEDIA RES, polysendeton, visual imagery, Chiasmus, Anaphora, metaphor

Background:

Structure:

• Stanzas: 1

• 14 lines

• Petrarchan sonnet

• The first 8 lines are about the day, last 6 lines are about the night.

• Theme:

  • Forbidden love/one’s dreams can provide a new reality

Lit devices: Synechdoche, Hyperbole, Juxtaposition, Anaphora