Verses upon the Burning of Our House
Anne Bradstreet
Verses upon the Burning of Our House
Allusion
Contemplations
Anne Bradstreet
Contemplations
Theme: Glorifying God through creation
The Author of Her Book
Anne Bradstreet
The Author of her Book
Extended metaphor
The Author of her book
Looks at her poetry as a deformed child
The way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's #1 struggle?
Order
Self-Reliance
Ralph Emerson
Concord Hymn
Ralph Emerson
The Rhodora
Ralph Emerson
The Rhodora
Shows love for nature
The Arrow and the Song
Henry Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Theme: A call to act/lead and not follow
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time"
(Work)
A Psalm of Life" - Metaphor
The Village Blacksmith
Henry Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha
Parallelism
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Theme: Unending, hopeless, mourning
The Raven
Internal Rhyme
Raven represents =
Emotion
Bust represents =
Wisdom
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Walden
Henry Thoreau
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.."
(Work)
Walden
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
A White Heron
Sarah Jewett
A White Heron
Intrusive 3rd Person
A White Heron
Romantic descriptions of nature
A Village Singer
Mary Freeman
A village Singer
Fire imagery
The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
Bret Harte
The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
Theme: Power of the published word
Under the Lion's Paw
Hamlin Garland
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Cosmic chill
The Open Boat
Determinism
The wind slowly died
Cosmic Chill
To Build a Fire
Jack London
We Wear the Mask
Paul Dunbar
When all is done
Paul Dunbar
Hymn
Paul Dunbar
Richard Cory
Edwin Robinson
Invented the fictional town "Tilbury Town
Edwin Robinson
Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Robinson
The Death of a Hired Man
Robert Frost
The Taxi
Amy Lowell
I call out for you against the jutted starts and shout into the ridges of the wing."
(Work)
The Taxi
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Masters
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo"
(Work)
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
(Work)
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Poetry
Marianne Moore
Spring and All
F. Fitzgerald
Neighbour Rosicky
Willa Cather
Old Man at the Bridge
Ernest Hemingway
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber
The Enemy
Pearl S. Buck
Oxi Mooron
Redundant statement