Midterm exam Flashcards
Head, Heart
Lydia Davis
Losing love or a relationship or someone to death
It’s a broken heart poem
“You will loose the ones you love, even the earth will go someday”
We really cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
Theme: pride
Pool player dropping out, singing sin, dying soon-young
“We real cool, left school, lurk late, die soon”
Leaving the motel
W. D. Snodgrass
Sly, sneaky, sinful
The two are in a hurry to leave before anyone comes and to make sure their is no evidence of their affair
“Fix you collar, take nothing of one another”
Woodchucks
Maxine kumin
Human nature
The lady must kill of the animals from eating her food in order to provide for her family
“The murderer rose up inside me hard”
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers
Adrienne Rich
Depressed/hopeless
She feels as though because of the time periods he has no freedom and and uses her nit tigers to express her idea of freedom
“When aunt Jennifer dies her terrified hands will lie still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by”
Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy
Sad/ unacceptable
The girl gives up her body parts so that people will call her pretty
“So she cut off her nose and and her legs and offered them up”
The golf links lies so near the mill
Sarah Cleghorn
Restrained/ frustration
The golf links are portrayed as the rich. And every day the working class (children) have to look at the luxury life
“The laboring children can look out
And see the men play”
Sex without Love
Sharon Olds
Lonely, isolated
I think that the main message of this poem is that meaningless sex without love is not love or pleasure, rather a cold and lonely act.
“They are like runners: they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind.
Divorce
Emily Dickinson
Frustrated/ unworthy
The end of a relationship/ marriage
Once two spoons in bed now tined forks
Across a granite table, the knives they had hired
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
The wheelbarrow can be seen as a power(tool) and the white chickens can be seen as pure or innocence
“So much depends upon a red wheel barrow”
Pied Beauty
Gerald Manly Hopkins
To his Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
Coy Mistress
Annie Finch
The Flea
John Donne
The Vacuum
Howard Nemerov
Dim Lady
Harryette Mullen
The Sick Rose
William Blake
The Lamb
William Blake
The tyger
William Blake
