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e.a. robinson

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richard cory

  • robinson grew up in poverty
  • commentary on how people who seem to have it all dont really have it all
  • happens with celebs a lot
  • “we” the speaker
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dunbar

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we wear the mask

  • first african american to gain acceptance and knowledge as a poet
  • wear mask to hide pain
  • have a we speaker
  • he is directly addressing african american during this time period
3
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stein

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susie asado

  • plays with images and associations
  • plays with how words sound together in a sentence
  • it is like looking at a cubist painting
  • there is no real meaning
4
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frost

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the road not taken

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w.c. williams

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the red wheelbarrow

spring and all

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pound

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in a statin of a metro

  • tried with treason after wwI
  • pans subway
  • american but traveled to europe
  • comparing everyday things to beauty
7
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eliot

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the love song of j alfred prufrock

  • clearly not a typical love song
  • greatly changes in the third line
  • he’s older line 40, bald spot
  • moves through different images
  • really early 20’s when wrote this
  • poem is about aging
  • allusion- prince hamlet
8
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mckay

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america

9
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millay

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pity me not because the light of day

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hughes

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mother to son

  • a jump into conversation
  • uses concrete extended metaphor of the stair case
  • there’s a turn from her life of what he should do (like a sonnet)
  • more realistic journey of life than frost’s road less taken
  • crystal stairs could be slippery
  • everyone has to climb stairs but some have it easier

theme for english b

  • the instructor and student have very different life but they are both american
  • hughes was 49 when he wrote this
  • couplet at the end

harlem

  • is harlem a place where dreams go to die
  • the play raisan in the sun is named after this
  • is exploding a good thing?
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cullen

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incident

12
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bishop

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one art

  • about losing things in life
  • the last stanza is where it gets real
  • a lot of bishops work is autobiographical
  • part of the confessional poetry movement
  • her lover had just died
  • villanelle(lyric poem)
13
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stafford

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traveling through the dark

14
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brooks

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the pool players seven at the golden shovel

  • we real cool
  • a timeless situation
  • very lyrical and has rhythm
  • internal rhyme
  • carpe diem
15
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ginsberg

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a supermarket in california

  • supermarket is a walt whitman fan club
  • mirrors whitman’s work and references it
  • he also aludes to whitman being gay
  • narrative and lyrical
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cowdery

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having had you

  • cowdery killed herself
  • poem to an actual lover
  • uses elips a lot reminds us of dickinsons dashes
17
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hughes vs cowdery

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  • hughes is more imagery and she is emotional imagery
  • cowdery is more universal
  • hughes is about a specific group of men in that period
18
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merwin

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for the anniversary of my death

19
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strand

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eating poetry

-about his love for poetry is like an animal preying on food

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berry

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the piece of wild things

  • glorify nature and like the romantic period
  • remind of i wandered lonely as a cloud by wordsworth
  • juxtaposition of wild and peace
21
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piercy

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barbie doll

  • we’re never good enough until we die
  • did she really cut her legs off
  • satire
  • shakespeare sonnet 130
22
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garcia

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why i left the church

  • starts out as normal and goes weird at the end
  • is this the lie he made for the other kids?
23
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olds

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i go back to may 1937

-if she could go back and tell them not to get married she wouldn’t because she wants to live

24
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gonzalez

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praise the tortilla, praise menudo, praise chorizo

25
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forche

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the colonel

  • very chunky
  • prose poem
  • tells a true story
  • but still flows like a normal poem