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Poetry
Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of "My Papa's Waltz" | Theodore Roethke |
| Author of "Lovers of the Poor" | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Author of "Once in a while a Protest Poem" | David Axelrod |
| Author of "Blood" | Naomi Nye |
| Author of "Making a Fist" | Naomi Nye |
| Author of "Streets" | Naomi Nye |
| Author of "Two Countries" | Naomi Nye |
| Author of "Blink your Eyes" | Sekou Sundiata |
| Author of "The Morning Bake" | Carolyn Forche |
| Author of "Elegy" | Carolyn Forche |
| Author of "The Colonel" | Carolyn Forche |
| Author of "Documentary" | Claribel Alegria |
| Author of "I am Mirror" | Claribel Alegria |
| Theme and subject and speaker of My Papa's Waltz; P or P? | Unconditional Love between father and son; drunk father playing with his son; The author as a little boy; Personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Lovers of the Poor | Poverty; Ladies of Betterment League's attitude toward the poor; the author; Seems political but could also be personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Once in a while a Protest Poem | Poverty; Poster of poor woman nursing; The author; mostly political but a little personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Blood | Terrorism; Arabs; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Making a Fist | Surviving our woes; young girl getting carsick; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Streets | Coping with someone's death; death; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Two Countries | Not being afraid to expose who you really are; Being from two different countries; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Blink your Eyes | racism; black man being pulled over by cops; the author; personal maybe a little political |
| Theme and subject and speaker of the Morning Bake | grieving; Forche missing her grandmother; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Elegy | speaking out against injustice; Holocaust shrine; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of The Colonel | fear; the colonel; the author; political but personal because she experienced it |
| Theme and subject and speaker of I am Mirror | being numb to pain; pain in her country; the author; personal |
| Theme and subject and speaker of Documentary | love for her country; her country; the author; personal and political |
| subject | basic matter of thought, conversation, etc. |
| theme | a prevailing idea in a work, but sometimes not explicitly stated |
| persona | the speaker of a poem, a dramatic character distinguished from the poet |
| audience | the people reached by the poem |
| connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: |
| denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word |
| paraphrase | the act or process of restating or rewording. |
| ambiguity | a statement with two or more meanings that may seem to exclude one another in the context. Grammatical ambiguity (amphibologia) occurs where a word has two or more possible word classes. |
| rhyme | identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. |
| rhythm | an audible metrical pattern inside verse boundaries established by the pause |
| oralyzing | the way someone speaks or talks because of their background |
| emblematic moments | asdf |
| lyric poem | short poem in which the poet, the poet's persona, or a speaker expresses personal feelings, and often addressed to the reader |
| prose poem | continuous, non-end-stopped writing that has other traits of poetry and is, from its context, associated with poems. |
| free verse | rhythmical but non-metrical, non-rhyming lines. These may have a deliberate rhythm or cadence but seem to disappoint the reader's expectation for a formal metre |
| dramatic monologue | a poem representing itself as a speech made by one person to a silent listener, usually not the reader |
| metaphor | a comparison that is made literally |
| simile | a comparison made with "as," "like," or "than. |
| imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, |
| repetition | the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation. |
| irony | stating something by saying another quite different thing, sometimes its opposite |
| symbol | something used for or regarded as representing something else |
| personification | an anthropomorphic figure of speech where the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a non-human form as if it were a person |
| alliteration | using the same consonant to start two or more stressed words or syll= ables in a phrase or verse line |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech where the part stands for the whole (for example, "I've got wheels" for "I have a car"). |
| mood | a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude |
| tone | the poet's attitude to the poem's subject as the reader interprets that, |
| Factually verifiable | example in "My Papa's Waltz" a fact is the father is drunk and pots fell |
| emotionally true | example in "My Papa's Waltz" the son loves the father |
| Poetry of Witness | First hand experience by the poet who has to share that experience |
| "Poetry is a conversation with the world; poetry is a conversation with the words on the page in which you allow those words to speak back to you, and poetry is a conversation with yourself." | Naomi Nye |
| "My favorite quote is from Thailand. 'Life is so short we must move very slowly.' I think that poems help us to do that by allowing us to savor a single image, a single phrase." | Naomi Nye |
| "I don't look at anything as being insignificant. I think that's another overlooked gift of poetry." | Naomi Nye |
| "There was a hit song by James Brown which had that line ['With Your Badd Self'], so it was a slang term, but this man [Amiri Baraka] made literature out of it and that really enabled me. It opened up the door and said, "wait a minute, there is poetry in | Sekou Sundiata |
| "I wanted to testify against the deforming experiences that have transformed so many lives and how many of those men have somehow managed to transcend those experiences." | Sekou Sundiata |
| "I think part of it [the resurgence and revitalization of poetry] has to do with the way in which people have really been beaten up and abused by language, to the point where they've become deeply distrustful. Much of lang | Sekou Sundiata |
| “I think poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing even.” | Carolyn Forche |
| “. . . unfortunately, they told the wrong person. They told a poet.” | Carolyn Forche |
| “One of the things that happens when poets bear witness to historical events is that everyone they tell becomes a witness too, everyone they tell also becomes responsible for what they have heard and what they now know." | Carolyn Forche |
| "Poetry is like bread--everybody shares it." | Claribel Alegria |
| "I wrote that poem [Documentary] a long time ago, and some people said it was a political poem. I laughed. To me it was a love poem for my country." | Claribel Alegria |
| "When there is so much horror around you, I think you have to look at it. You have to feel it and suffer with the others and make that suffering yours. With hope, always with hope." | Claribel Alegria |
| "I thought, 'Something is going to happen.' . . . some of these people may see a little bit of light.' That's my way of fighting for my country. | Claribel Alegria |
| hyperbole | exaggeration beyond reasonable credence. |
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