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My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke |
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| Poem about a drunk father coming home to beat the child who still loves him. |
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| A girl grows up normal until students tell her she has fat legs and a large nose, so she cuts them off and dies. |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot |
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| Hopeless romantic writes a love letter in which he is scared to disrupt the universe. |
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| A tyger represents evil, so did the same god who made us, make it? |
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Fireflies in the Garden
Robert Frost |
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| Fireflies can try all they want, but will never amount to the stars in the universe. |
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| A bog woman is described as being beautiful - she was punished for an almost unjust reason (sexual acts with an English soldier), and the author feels awful for watching deeds like this occur. |
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Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost |
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| A traveler stops in the woods to watch snow fall with his horse, who is confused on why they have stopped for no reason. |
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In the Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound |
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| Two-lined poem about faces in the crowd appearing like ghostly apparitions. |
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
William Shakespeare |
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| The reader is compared to a summer's day, which the speaker believes he/she is better than, but that poetry is better. |
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On My First Son
Ben Johnson |
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| A father mourns his son's death on his seventh birthday. |
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| A raven flies into a man's house, taunting him of his lost partner, Lenore. Each stanza ends in evermore, nevermore, or nothing more. |
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I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman |
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| Each industry is represented by "singing" their work. |
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| This poem is filled with things that happened in the speaker's lifetime, most importantly, the war. |
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This is Just to Say
William Carlos Williams |
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| Speaker ate the plums in the icebox knowingly and rubs it in reader's face. |
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The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos William |
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| Everything depends on a red wheelbarrow filled with rain water near the chickens. |
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| A flea represents the speaker and reader's love, and the reader squishes it. |
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Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney |
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| The speaker's younger brother (4 years old) dies and the family copes with it in this poem. |
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To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell |
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| Man trying to desperately convince later that there is no time to wait, they are mortal and therefore must not wait to make love. |
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas |
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| Old, wise men fight until the very end of their existence, and the speaker wishes his father to do the same. |
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Ode On a Grecian Urn
John Keats |
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| About a big vase from Greece which there are many stories untold and painted on. The artistry will be held in immortality. |
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| A woman talks of death in a concentration camp. |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet |
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| Love is everlasting, as described by a wife. |
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The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats |
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| This poem speaks of the second coming of Christ. |
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| A history of potato farming runs in the speaker's family, but the speaker would rather write to make a difference. |
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Harlem (A Dream Deferred)
Langston Hughes |
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| What happens to a dream ignored/repressed? Does it shrivel/explode/etc.? |
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| Hamlet's friends spot his dad's ghost who tells Hamlet that his uncle killed his father. Hamlet promises revenge. |
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| What happens in the first part of Hamlet? |
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| Characters begin to question Hamlet's sanity. Hamlet plans to catch uncle's guilt during a play. |
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| What happens in the second part of Hamlet? |
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| Hamlet encounters and tells off Ophelia. The play plan is successful, but the King is praying so Hamlet does not kill him. Hamlet speaks with mother and kills Polonius. |
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| What happens in the third part of Hamlet? |
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| Hamlet is sent to England for his murder, Laertes swears revenge, and Ophelia commits suicide in the lake. |
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| What happens in the fourth part of Hamlet? |
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| Laertes and Hamlet fight, the Queen drinks the poison, and Hamlet kills the king. Basically everyone dies so Fortinbras takes over the kingdom. |
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| What happens in the fifth part of Hamlet? |
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare |
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| A man avenges his father by killing his uncle. |
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