English 1H Embedded Assessment Creating a Poetry Anthology Your assignment is to create a poetry anthology that includes the following: ✓ Cover with unique title and colorful illustration ✓ Table of contents ✓ Introduction (brief autobiography that explains what the reader needs to know about you to better understand your poems) ✓ Eight original poems with colorful illustrations and annotation (Mark the text‚ identify poetic devices‚ and explain the intended effect.)
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Cited: Geddes‚ Gary. 20th Century Poetry & Poetics: Fourth Edition. Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada‚ 1996.
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November 8th 2013 Poetry Heaven The sonnet is one of the most common methods in poetry. Sonnets are very restrictive because there is only 14 lines predominantly in iambic pentameter. This restricts the poetry writing‚ but that is what makes it so beautiful. Sonnets are usually about love. Their tone sound very nice‚ easy to read and they can be sung. Sonnets are taken as a challenge for many poets because freeverse is easy and linear. “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” is a Sonnet written
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P O E T R Y A N T H O L O G Y “Racism and Suffering in African American Poetry” 1|Page T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S Cover Page ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1 Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………………………………..……………… 2 Prologue …..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……… 3 Poem List ….…………………………………………………………………………………………..………………….…… 4 Commentaries ……………………………………………………………………………….……………………………… 5 “Africa” by Maya Angelou ……………………………….………………………………………………………
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prodigious source of inspiration for William Wordsworth. Like many other romantic poets‚ he possessed great love for nature but unlike them he never expressed his anger for nature’s unkindness to him. Wordsworth started perceiving the nature closely and had a desire to give his feelings some words. Wordsworth enhanced his poetry with his outstanding imagination. William Wordsworth not only used nature‚ but also his family and his romantic affairs to make him into a respected poet in the eighteenth century
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Poetry can be used as a way of transforming experience and emotions into words‚ which often details personal and intimate feelings that allow the reader to have a taste of what the poet felt in that vulnerable moment. However‚ being a poet often means your work is published and open to the scrutiny and opinions of the public. Thereby turning a once personal experience into a public spectacle. This can either unify reader and author in the comfort that someone else has gone through the same experiences
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Romantic Period (circa 1800-1900) The Romantic Era sprung from literature and free thinking caused by the French Revolution (1789-1794). Stories and poems of heroics written in the Romance languages French‚ Spanish‚ Italian and other Latin-based languages conjured images of fantasy and imaginary other worlds. The Romantic period was somewhat detached from reality‚ and focused less on the present than on the past and future. Music was seen as the best medium to express the values of the Romantic
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Rousseau saw this as dangerous to the freedom of mankind and thus sparked the Romantic movement; which sought to revive mankind by portraying life and nature in all its glory. • Two poets that romanced nature during this era were: • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and John Keats (1795-1821). Romantic poetry‚ despite the name‚ is not always about love and relationships. The theme of Nature is predominant in a lot of Romantic poetry‚ where questions arise as to what that nature is‚ what it symbolizes‚ and
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Neruda uses several poetic resources to transmit his feelings to the reader‚ some of these resources are comparisons metaphors and ironies which are highly used on his work‚ the language used is simple and very descriptive‚ his poems are very romantic‚ the principle topics are the melancholy and love and his style is surrealistic and very descriptive. The poem 15 is "I like You When you are Quiet"‚ of the book twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair talks about Neruda ’s feelings toward his beloved
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Wordsworth’s poems initiated the Romantic era by emphasizing feeling‚ instinct‚ and pleasure above the formality and mannerism of the preceding neo-classical style. The themes that run through Wordsworth’s poetry and the language and imagery he uses to embody those themes remain consistent throughout most of his works. One of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‚” which addresses the familiar subjects of nature and memory with a particularly simple musical
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