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Study guide: Poem test 4/3/19
Narrative poem is a poem that tells a story
Lyric poem is one that contains emotions, moods, feelings, and state of mind is what it contains
Out Out by Robert Frost
-Little boy cuts hand off
-He dies
-It is about how life is short and life just goes on after death
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
-Takes place at a poolhall
-young boys take pride in horrible behavior and dropping out of school because they’ll die soon
I Like To See It Lap The Miles by Emily Dickinson
-First stanza is alliteration
In Just by E. E. Cummings
-about men in park
-was a older man selling balloons
-kids there too (eddie and bill then betty and isbel)
-kids come running when balloon man whistles
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
-world could end in either fire or ice
-fire is compared to love while ice is compared to hate
Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
-example of imagery
Metaphors- concise form of comparison equating 2 things that may at first seem completely dissimilar, often an abstraction and a concrete image
Simile- comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using words like or as
Jabberwocky from Alice in Wonderland
-nonsense poem
Secretary chant by Marge Piercy
-secretary and machine
-compared secretary to job
-metaphor= poem itself
Boom, crack, slam= examples of onomatopoeia
O My love is like red red rose by Robert burns
-simile in title
Richard Coney by Edwin Arling...