Poetic Form and Close Reading Memorable Characters in English Poetry Historical Contexts Genres Famous Conceits
100
What is polyvalent (or ambiguous).
When a word has more than one meaning, it can be said to be this.
100
Who is Porphyria's Lover.
He strangles his companion with her own blonde hair.
100
Who is John Milton.
This poet's revolutionary politics mirrored those of his character, Satan.
100
What is the Pastoral.
This kind of poem usually reveals tensions between literacy and illiteracy.
100
What is Paradise Lost or The Darkling Thrush.
This poem likens poetry to the nightingale's song.
200
What is Practical Criticism.
This famous book by I.A. Richards inaugurated the practice of close reading.
200
Who is Despair.
He tries to convince Redcrosse to take his own life.
200
What is the Preface to Lyrical Ballads
This prose work was concerned with "gross and violent stimulants" of modern life and its effect on the human mind.
200
What is allegory.
Spenser described this genre as a "dark conceit."
200
Who is Andrea del Sarto.
This timid painter likens all of his paintings to "twilight"
300
What is a message/messages.
Brooks and Warren thought it was reductive to say that poem was this, and warned against hunting for them.
300
Who is J. Alfred Prufrock?
He thought he "should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
300
What is In Memoriam?
This poem alludes to contemporaneous scientific developments when it imagines Nature responding, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go"
300
What is a lyrical ballad.
"Simon Lee" is an example of a hybrid genre called this.
300
What is "The Idea of Order at Key West"
This poem describes the woman singing as "the maker."
400
What is trochaic tetrameter.
This is the meter of the poem, if each line is 8 syllables long and is comprised of four "feet" that scan "STRESS - UNSTRESSED."
400
Who is Eve?
She asked, "If this be our condition, thus to dwell
In narrow circuit straitened... How are we happy?
400
What is "The Darkling Thrush"
This poem reflects on the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th.
400
What is an aubade.
This kind of poem is typically addressed to the morning or the morning sun.
400
Who is Shakespeare.
This poet describes how he believes he is perceived by describing "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang."
500
What is Paradise Lost.
This work is prefaced by a short essay describing why the poet is rejecting rhyme -- the first instance of unrhymed narrative poetry in English.
500
Who is the Nymph (in Ralegh's "The Nymph's Reply")
She declines an invitation, saying "If all the world and love were young / And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue / These pretty pleasures might me move / To live with thee, and be thy love."
500
What is "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
This poetic work reveals the poet's anxieties about his class and educational background.
500
What is the georgic.
This middle genre was traditionally attempted by a poem after he/she wrote pastorals but before he/she wrote an epic.
500
What is "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
This poem compared the rural dead to unseen underwater gems or unseen flowers.






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