• by andrew marvell
• Coy- shy; hard to get
• a man is talking to the woman
• he is trying to get him to have sex with him
• this is a sezies the day poem
• he says if they had all the time in the world she could be shy
• he promises to love her forever
• " ten years before the flood and after the jews convert"
• he would give her everything if they had all the time in the world he would take his time
• 2nd stanza he tries to scare her into bed (death)
• when she dies so will her... her beauty dies, he will lose her love, worms will take her virginity
• 3rd stanza he says her soul is willing
• amourous- feeling in the mood
• devour their time, roll up sweetness and strength together

• 14 lines
• usually about love
• 4lines qutrain
• 2lines couplet
• usually a twist at the end
• the twist is in the last two lines for shakespear sonets

• abbaabbacdecde

or

• abbaabbacdcdcd
• it has 6lines to create the twist

• iam: two silibles one stressed one unstressed

• by willam shakespear
• they're just plain eyes
• her lips aren't as red as coral
• her skin is gray not fair/white
• her hair is like wires
• she doesn't have rosey cheeks
• he likes to hear her voice but it's not better than music
• she doesn't glide she walks like a normal person
• he refuses to speak too highly of her
• but they're love is rare and nothing compares to it

• by willam shakespear
• love is alot of things
• its ever lasting and even bumps in the road can't change it
• the twist is that it's unproveable

• A₁ B A₂    A B A    A B A₂    A B A₂     A B A₂    A B A₁ A₂
• 19LINES 6STANZA'S

• by dylan thomas
• old people should be angry about death
• 2nd stanaz good men: moral, honest, they realize all good deeds didnt help them avoid death
• 3rd stanza wild men: reckless they lost their sun along the way and realize and regret being wild b/c they used up all their days
• 4th grave men: serious but too serious so they missed life and didn't enjoy it
• he wants his father to show his rage about death but still doesn't want to see his father cry

• by gerard manley hopkins
• hopkins was a priest
• the poem is an itilian sonet
• it's a devine love poem
• grandeur: greatness
• the world is full of the greatness of god
• why don't we recognise his power
• everything is burned with trade
• toil: work
• everything is messed up b/c of work and we ruined the earth
• soil is bear but we can't feel it b/c of our shoes (connection to earth)
• the twist is that even though we abuse nature it's never spent / runs out
• "!" are used for emphasize

• by wilfred owen
• he died in action the title means: it is sweet and proper to die for ones countries
• bent double: almost crawling
• they turn their backs on battle to go rest
• blood shod: shoes made of blood
• lame: cripple
• 1st stanza pastens
• someone didn't get their mask on so he suffocated
• the war stil haunts him
• if people could see what he saw you wouldn't tell them to go to war to get glory
• it's in caps b/c it's a lie

• by randal jarrell
• in wwII
• he's young at war
• he got into the ball turret
• he's being fired at
• this poem could also be about abortion

• by jimmy santiago baca
• he's joking about the fact that mex. are stealing the jobs
• he sounds frustrated
• a man coming home with a whore in the poem makes us sound worst than the mex.
• thinks the pres. is only sayn the mex. are taking jobs b/c of the press
• the end of the poem becomes serious
• talks about hungry blacks being shot at
• farms are being sold to huge corperations
• money is a cool green sea, people are above and below the people below are drowning and struggling to get above
• we aren't giving the children a chance to live
• whenever we say mex. are taking jobs it means let their children die

• W.H. auden
• they were lovers
• airplanes writing out he's dead
• doves wear black bow ties
• last stanza is unrealistic
• just a rhyming couplet

• elizabeth bishop
• 1st stanza she's losing little things like keys
• she's losing her personal stuff
• 5th shes losing her countinents memories and posibilities
• she lost a significant other
• she has to force herself to stay together b/c its a disaster she's trying to convince her self that losing stuff is easy to master

• by robert hayden
• fathers hands are cracked b/c of the labor he did
• there is chronic anger in the house
• he resented his father
• but he didn't realize at the time how much his father loved him and regrets not ever telling him thank you

• by theodore roethke
• he's remembering the good times he's had with his father
• but he realizes that it wasn't to good that his father came home drunk

by marge piercy

• by sharon olds
• sex is described as dancing
• steak and wine is a romantic dinnr
• sex is like a wet baby at birth but without love its like the mother is giving the unwanted baby away
• "come to the" is an orgasm
• in sex you work up to get to the stil waters but without love it's pointless
• in the end she sees that the people who have sex without love are better people b/c they are able to admit they are having sex without love

• by langston hughes