Terms, Poems and Suggestions for Understanding Poetry

PLEASE read the "Suggestions for Approaching Poetry" on pages 562 and 563

In order to write well about poetry, consider the questions on pages 581 and 582; be sure you understand the terms below in relation to the poems we read. WE WILL HAVE A QUIZ OVER THESE TERMS AND THE POEMS WE STUDY, AS WELL AS AN IN-CLASS ESSAY EXPLICATING A POEM.

QUIZ:  The week of November 10
                                             Both quiz and essay will be on the FIRST day of class that week.
ESSAY:  The week of November 17th

Terms--these are most likely NOT all--expect more to be added to this list:
These terms were taken from the questions posed on pages 581 & 582; definitions can be found in the back of your text. LOOK THEM UP.  We will be using the terms in class, and I will be explaining them as we read the poems, but often, people seem unaware that the explanation is not for my benefit, but theirs.  
Terms with an asterisk will DEFINITELY be on the quiz next week. 

*speaker
*setting
*situation
*diction
*connotation
*denotation
*allusion
*imagery
*figurative language
*symbolism
*situational irony
*tone/mood
*onomatopoeia
*assonance
*alliteration
*metaphor
*rhyme
*repetition
*rythym

POEMS -- list may change:
NOTE:  the quiz over poetry WILL include all poems and terms with an asterisk; these are the works we will cover in class. Note that the list of poems has changed since it was originally posted. 

These poems will be on the quiz next week:

*p. 669- Edwin Arlington Robinson - "Richard Cory"
*Billy Collins  -  "Aristotle" 
Handout:  Robert Frost - "Out, out"

p. 575 - Edgar Allan Poe -- "The Raven"
p. 572 - Mary Oliver -- "The Poet with His Face in His Hands"

p. 1022 - Percy B. Shelley -- "Ozymandias"
p. 1026 - Walt Whitman --"When I heard the learn'd astronomer"

We will do a short study of Robert Frost; from the study of his poems your essay will be taken.