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Final Exam: Poetry Unit

Terms in this set (22)

What is the main idea/theme of Oranges?
The preservation of innocence
What is the main idea/theme of Out, Out?
Guilt and responsibility
What is the main idea/theme of The Fish?
Dignity in death
What is the main idea/theme of Traveling through the dark?
Troubled conscience regarding the value of all living things
What is the main idea/theme of The Man he Killed?
Conscientious reflection on war and death
What is the main idea/theme of Harlem?
The postponement of dreams has consequences
Who is the author of Oranges?
Gary Soto
Who is the author of Out Out?
Robert Frost
Who is the author of The Fish?
Elizabeth Bishop
Who is the author of Traveling through the Dark?
William Stafford
Who is the author of The Man he Killed?
Thomas Hardy
Who is the author of Harlem?
Langston Hughes
"He didn't fight/ He hadn't fought at all/He hung a grunting weight/ Battered and venerable"
The Fish
"The lady's eyes met mine/And held them, knowing/Very well what it was all/About
Oranges
"Had he and I but met/By some old ancient inn/We should have set us down to wet/Right many a nipperkin."
The Man He Killed
"Call it a day, I wish they might have said/To please the boy by giving him the half hour/That a boy counts so much when saved from work."
Out, Out
"Or does it explode?"
Harlem
"December. Frost cracking/Beneath my steps, my breath/Before me, then gone."
Oranges
"I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red"
Traveling Through the Dark
"Does it fry up/like a raisin in the sun?"
Harlem
"I thought hard for us all- my only swerving-"
Traveling Through the Dark
"I admired his sullen face/the mechanism of his jaw/and then I saw...."
The Fish
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