week 9 quiz Flashcards
who wrote The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus
what is a sonnet
a poem of 14 lines which conveys a powerful emotion or idea
what is a pertrachan/ italian sonnet
8 lines (octave) followed by 6lines the (sestet)
what is an english sonnet
2 quatrains followed by a couplet
where are the 5 lines of emma lazarus’s sonnet displayed
on the statue of liberty
what did e,,a lazarus want to make
a nation again
why was emma lazarus upset
she was upset at the treatment of immigrants especially jews and eastern europeans
what elements of realism are in the new colossuss
your tired, your hiddled masses yearing to breathe free, wretched refuse of your teeming
what kind of sonnet is the new colossus
italian
who was walt whitman
original american poet who communicated the spirit and vastness of the new nation
- father of free verse
- founded free soil newspaper
what did walt whitman volunteer as
nurse in washington DC
