I noticed that Andrew came up with a list of the poems we studied in class this semester with his summaries next to them so I thought I could post a list of authors and some of the things that help me remember who wrote what.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
-rhyming at the end of each line
-some alliteration
-religious poetry
Emily Dickinson
-lots of dashes, ones in the middle of the line or at the end
-weird capitalization, capitalization of the first word of each line, and capitalization of nouns
-something about death
-short lines
-slant rhyme
William Cullen Bryant
-medium length lines
-some dashes
-talks about nature and how nature is a comforting figure
-capitalization of the first word in each line
Thomas Traherne
-angels
-describing a world someone first enters
-about birth/rebirth/afterlife
Edward Taylor
-about spiders
-very short lines with a specific format (indentation)
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Christopher Smart
-the line starts with the word “For”
-talks about cats
T.S. Eliot
-dialogue
-foreign languages
-references to foreign places
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Wendy Cope
-short
-easy to understand
-talks about the wasteland (the few parts I understood)
Marianne Moore
-animals, using specific scientific names
-not much punctuation
-complex sentence structures, very long sentences
-quotes that you won’t notice are quotes unless they are quoted
-things about nature
-things about humans and their relationship to nature
William Carlos Williams
-some poems have very short lines, like a few words short
-some poems have middle length lines
-almost no punctuation (except dashes and commas, sometimes there are periods)
Kenneth Koch
-long lines, sentences
-humorous
-reminds me of the plum poem
Langston Hughes
-about Harlem,
-examples of dreams deferred
-African Americans
-italics
-some onomatopoeia
-short lines
Frank O’Hara
-food
-lunchtime
-seemingly trivial activities
-New York
-foreign places
-vulgar language
John Donne
-love and the lover’s world
-“thou”, “thee”
-Shakespeare-ish language (I forgot what it’s called, Middle English?)
Robert Duncan
-complete sentences
-describes a place (the meadow)
-talks about writing (Structure of Rime)
Lorine Niedecker (I don’t have much to say)
-very short poems
-a little random
Harryette Mullen
-incomprehensible
-sometimes paragraph form
-specific patterns (ex. Sentences start out the same way, lines start with same letter of the alphabet)
3 comments:
Awesome! This'll be a great help when I'm studying!
Thank you so much. YAY I had the same exact thing on notecards for all the poets.
After the final is done, I certainly do want to say thank you for the study aid. I'm pretty sure I did pretty darn well on the first section of the Final.
I was disappointed, however, that Christopher's Smart poem was not on the short ID because it would have been so easy: "starts with for." haha Have a good break.
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