Poetry Flashcards
Edgar Allen Poe
USA (Boston, Baltimore). Poems: The Raven, Annabel Lee, Lenore, A Dream Within A Dream, Alone, The Bells. “great faith in fools”
Books: The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, The Masque of Red Death.
Maya Angelou
St Louis. Civil Rights Leader. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, On The Pulse of Morning, Still I Rise.
Emily Dickinson
Amherst, Mass. Eccentric, posthumous. Hope is the thing with feathers.
Shel Silverstein
Chicago. The Giving Tree, Where The Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up.
Robert Frost
San Fran. 4 Pulitzers. The Road Not Taken, The Gift Outright, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, Nothing Gold Can Stay, New Hampshire series.
Walt Whitman
Long Island. Civil War. Leaves of Grass, O Captain My Captain, When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloomed.
Langston Hughes
Harlem Reniassance. Harlem (Dream Deferred), I Too Sing America.
Pablo Neruda
Chile. I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You.
Thomas Hardy
Victorian England. Tess of the d’Ubervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure.
Rudyard Kipling
British India. The Jungle Book, If - , Gunga Din, Just So Stories, The Man Who Would Be King.
Oscar Wilde
Ireland, gay. The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Vision.
John Keats
London, died young. Ode to a Nightingale, Sleep and Poetry.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Victorian England, married Robert Browning eloped to Italy. How Do I Love Thee, Aurora Leigh.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
England. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War), “tis better to have loved and lost…”
William Blake
London, prophetic works. The Tyger, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence (The Lamb, The Shepherd).
