ELIT 11, Introduction to Poetry

Weisner

July 16, 2002

As promised, the in-class part of the 6/18 midterm (and final, for that matter) is more like a big quiz. We’ll use a hour or so, first thing, on Thursday; it will all be fill in the blank and matching.

KNOW THE FOLLOWING TERMS (for matching, fill in the blank):

A) lyric poem N) dramatic irony

B) dramatic poem O) verbal irony

C) narrative poem P) concrete language

D) tone Q) diction

E) persona R) apostrophe

F) imagery S) paraphrase

G) figures of speech T) connotation

H) simile U) denotation

I) metaphor V) hyperbole

J) synecdoche W) understatement

K) paradox X) haiku

L) metonymy Y) personification

M) pun Z) parody

KNOW THE FOLLOWING POEMS (for identification: matching to passages)

A) "The Fish" (1946), Elizabeth Bishop

B) "The Victory" (1974), Anne Stevenson

C) "Mock Orange" (1985), Louise Glück

D) "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" (1609), William Shakespeare

E) ) "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," Adrienne Rich

F) "Metaphors" (1960), Sylvia Plath

G) "Elegy, Written in His Own Hand…." (1586), Chidiock Tichborne

H) "I Knew a Woman" (1958), Theodore Roethke

I) "”The Winter Evening Settles Down, T.S. Eliot

J) "Oh, My Love is Like a Red Red Rose," (about 1788), Robert Burns

K) "Batter My Heart, Three Personed God, For You" (1610), by John Donne

L) "Reason" (1955), Josephine Miles

M) "London" (1794), William Blake

N) "My Papa's Waltz" (1948), by Theodore Roethke

O) "For My Daughter" (1940), Weldon Kees

P) "This is Just to Say," William Carlos Williams

Q) "The Unknown Citizen" (1940), W.H. Auden

R) "Rites of Passage" (1983), Sharon Olds

S) "In Westminster Abbey" (1940), John Betjeman

T) "The Chimney Sweeper" (1789), William Blake

U) "High Treason," Jose Emilio Pacheco

V) "Dulce et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen

W) "Out, Out," Robert Frost

X) "My Last Duchess,” Robert Browning

Y) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," William Blake

Z) "In a Station at the Metro," Ezra Pound

AA) “I Applied for the Board,” Jimmy Santiago Baca

BB) “Cloudy Day,” Jimmy Santiago Baca

CC) “Crying Poem, Jimmy Santiago Baca

DD) “at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation…” Lucille Clifton

EE) “shapeshifter poems,” Lucille Clifton

FF) “fury,” Lucille Clifton

GG) “How I Got That Name,” Marilyn Chin

HH) “The Floral Apron,” Marilyn Chin

II) “Turtle Soup,” Marilyn Chin

ELIT 11, Introduction to Poetry

Weisner

July 16, 2002

Notebook for Thursday: Write about any poem that you haven’t written about yet, either from upcoming chapters 15 and 16, or from previous chapters. Prioritize midterm study. In class, we will definitely touch on:

Li-Young Lee

“I Ask My Mother to Sing” (265-66)

“The Gift” (261-62)

Pablo Neruda “Muchos Somos” (330)

Li Po, “Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon” (332)

Octavio Paz “Con Los Ojos Cerrados” (334)

William Stafford “Traveling Through the Dark (353)

William Butler Yeats “Sailing to Byzantium” (358)