Example Test Poems. In preparation for Poetry Types and Terms Test

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1 Example Test Poems In preparation for Poetry Types and Terms Test

2 EXAMPLE 1 Whitecaps by Richard Wright

3 Example by William Shakespeare

4 Example 3 The Mermaid

5 Example 4

6 Example 5 Funeral Blues by WH Auden Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.

7 Example 6 Days by Philip Larkin

8 Example 7 Excerpt from The Aeneid By Virgil I sing of arms and the man, he who, exiled by fate, first came from the coast of Troy to Italy, and to Lavinian shores hurled about endlessly by land and sea, by the will of the gods, by cruel Juno s remorseless anger, long suffering also in war, until he founded a city and brought his gods to Latium: from that the Latin people came, the lords of Alba Longa, the walls of noble Rome. Muse, tell me the cause: how was she offended in her divinity, how was she grieved, the Queen of Heaven, to drive a man, noted for virtue, to endure such dangers, to face so many trials? Can there be such anger in the minds of the gods? (The rest of the 9,800 line poem is about the brave Aeneas and his heroic deeds.)

9 Cool Poem Example Remember by Christina Rossetti

10 Example Short Answer 1-2 sentence explanation Why aren t limericks, haikus, narratives, ballads, and epics types of lyric poems? Why is a sonnet a type of lyric?

11 What poetry term is used in the following verses? Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper-thin Like a house of cards one blow from caving in? Do you ever feel already buried deep? Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing Do you know that there's still a chance for you? 'Cause there's a spark in you

12 What poetry term is used in the following verses? Listen to the rivers, the raven s song, the woodpecker s knock, and your beating heart. Walk softly, mind the leaves dancing In shaky hands Of an old maple.

13 What poetry term is used in the following verses? Our lives lives are made from these things, and when you describe them, you discover magic. It s the way your pen becomes a wand in your hand, and this may be the only thing you need to know.

14 Is this poem free verse, or does it have a rhyme scheme? I keep an old verse in my room That says believing in roses makes them bloom. I know enough of life s toil To say it also takes rich, fertile soil Lots of good, old-fashioned care And rain to make roses blossom in air. Here a beautiful red field grows-- I d say the loveliest anyone knows.

15 What poetry term is used in this poem excerpt? Oh, do you know the mountain road That leads to yonder peak? A few will walk that trail alone, Their dreams they go to seek. One such was Marian Blacktree, A lowly sheperdess, And courting her was Tom, the swain, Who loved her nonetheless. Oh, do you know the mountain road That leads to yonder peak? A few will walk that trail alone, Their dreams they go to seek. That night she came to Tom and said She longed to know the sky. "I'm weary of this valley, love, I want to learn to fly!" A thought occurred to Marian While watching o'er her sheep, And gazing at the mountain thus She nodded off to sleep.

16 Does the following poetry excerpt contain assonance or alliteration? 1 Hear the mellow wedding bells, 2 Golden bells! 3 What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! 4 Through the balmy air of night 5 How they ring out their delight! 6 From the molten-golden notes, 7 And an in tune, 8 What a liquid ditty floats 9 To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats

17 Assonance or Alliteration? An Austrian array, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery, besieged Belgrade. Cossack commanders, cannonading come, Dealing destruction s devastating doom; Every endeavor, engineers essay For fame, for fortune, forming furious fray. Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good Heaves high his head heroic hardihood. Ibraham, Islam, Ismael, imps in ill, Jostle John Jarovlitz, Jem, Joe, Jack, Jill: Kick kindling Kutusoff, king s kinsman kill; Labor low levels loftiest longest lines; Men march mid moles, mid mounds, mid murderous mines. Now nightfall s nigh, now needful nature nods. Opposed, opposing, overcoming odds. Poor peasants, partly purchased, partly pressed, Quite quaking, Quarter! Quarter! quickly quest. Reason returns, recalls redundant rage, Saves sinking soldiers, softens signiors sage. Truce, Turkey, truce! truce, treacherous Tartar train! Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish, vile vengeance! vanish, victory vain! Wisdom wails war wails warring words. What were Xerxes, Xantippe, Ximenes, Xavier? Yet yassy s youth, ye yield your youthful yest. Zealously, zanies, zealously zeal s zest.