English Poems
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Musee des Beaux Arts | -W.H. Auden -martyr |
| Sestina | -Elizabeth Bishop -almanac |
| The Fish | -Elizabeth Bishop -transformation/freedom |
| The Lamb* | -William Blake -innocence vs. experience -Jesus=Lamb |
| The Tyger | -William Blake -innocence vs. experience |
| The Winter Evening Settles Down | -T.S. Eliot -lifeless hollowness of modern day life |
| Design | -Robert Frost -innocence vs. experience |
| Mending Wall | -Robert Frost -struggle for friendship |
| Out, Out | -Robert Frost -personification -boy cuts hand off |
| The Silken Tent* | -Robert Frost -induvisuality -Tent=Girl |
| Those Winter Sundays | -Robert Hayden -father who works/unappreciated |
| Piano | -D.H. Lawrence -youth/music and song |
| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | -Edna St. Vincent Millay -love/memories |
| Simile* | -N. Scott Momaday -simile -Deer=People |
| Rite of Passage* | -Sharon Olds -bday party -Children=Adults |
| The One Girl at the Boys Party | -Sharon Olds -girl at boys bday party/mathmatics |
| Good Girl* | -Molly Peacock -death/feminism -girl=narrow center pole |
| Metaphors | -Sylvia Plath -pregnancy/metaphors |
| In a Station of the Metro | -Ezra Pound -what a man is seeing in the metro |
| My Papa's Waltz | -Theodore Roethke -fatherhood/abuse |
| The Root Cellar | -Theodore Roethke -refusal to be forgotten; to give up |
| My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun | -William Shakespeare -false compare/love |
| Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments | -William Shakespeare -immortalize the subject through poetry/love |
| That Time of Year Thou Mayest in me Behold | -William Shakespeare -metaphors about old age/nature |
| When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eye's | -William Shakespeare -how love makes you happy |
| Ask Me* | -William Stafford -guy asking questions -River=Man |
| Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | -Dylan Thomas -refusal to die/death |
| The Reapers | -Jean Toomer -life's continuum after death/death |
| White Lies | -Natasha Tretheway -Black girl lying about skin color |
| The Writer* | -Richard Wilbur -life journey -Bird=Daughter |
| Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | -James Wright -football |
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | -William Butler Yeats -man talking about what he wants |
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