e.a. robinson
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
dunbar
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
stein
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
frost
the road not taken
w.c. williams
the red wheelbarrow
spring and all
pound
in a statin of a metro
- tried with treason after wwI
- pans subway
- american but traveled to europe
- comparing everyday things to beauty
eliot
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
mckay
america
millay
pity me not because the light of day
hughes
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?
cullen
incident
bishop
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)
stafford
traveling through the dark
brooks
the pool players seven at the golden shovel
- we real cool
- a timeless situation
- very lyrical and has rhythm
- internal rhyme
- carpe diem
ginsberg
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
cowdery
having had you
- cowdery killed herself
- poem to an actual lover
- uses elips a lot reminds us of dickinsons dashes
hughes vs cowdery
- hughes is more imagery and she is emotional imagery
- cowdery is more universal
- hughes is about a specific group of men in that period
merwin
for the anniversary of my death
strand
eating poetry
-about his love for poetry is like an animal preying on food
berry
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
piercy
barbie doll
- we’re never good enough until we die
- did she really cut her legs off
- satire
- shakespeare sonnet 130
garcia
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?
olds
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
gonzalez
praise the tortilla, praise menudo, praise chorizo
forche
the colonel
- very chunky
- prose poem
- tells a true story
- but still flows like a normal poem