Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Flashcards
1st American to have has ……..placed in the Poet’s Coner of Westminster Abbey
Burst
Used the greatest variety of …………….. when compared to other New England School Poets.
Genres and verse forms
Best works followed ………
The death of his 2nd wife
19th century American readers called long fellow ………….……
Their poet
Mezzo Cammin mean?
Halfway up the road
What type of Mezzo cammin?
Sonnet
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
A lyric poem of 14 iambic pentameter lines a mentionably rhyming according to ……..
One or two patterns
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
Line4: “some tower of song with lofty parapet”–> the tower he wants to build is ………..
Poetry
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
His perspective of his past suggests ……………………….
Line11 “ A city in the twilight dim and vast”–> he view his past as being Dark and dim
And the past is being compared to city
disappointment
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
A self evaluation of his accomplishment, a review of his …..………… of the future.
experience and anticipation
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
Metaphor : read and scenery along the road in comparison to ……
his life
Cataract of death
Last line …………………
startling reference of Death
Divina Commedia
Chiefly abt the ……
Blessing of prayer
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
Part of a larger effort of his translation of ……………………… from Italian to England
Dante’s Divine comedy
Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
Line12 “The tumult of the disconsolate” refers to the …….. war rather than ……..
- Civil
- grief
