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Poetry Titles and Authors
Matching Titles of Poems with their authors.
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English
11th Grade
11/08/2009

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The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

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Ezra Pound

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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T.S. Eliot

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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

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Wallace Stevens

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Patterns

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Amy Lowell

 

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Chicago

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Carl Sandburg

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Renascence

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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anyone lived in a pretty how town

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E.E. Cummings

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old age sticks

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E.E. Cummings

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The Death of the Hired Hand

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Robert Frost

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Out, Out-

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Robert Frost

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Robert Frost

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Robert Frost

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Who's Who

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W.H. Auden

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Any Human to Another

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Countee Cullen

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Langston Hughes

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Imagism

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Literary movement established in the early 1900s where writers concentrated on directly presenting images of objects, people, or events without full explainations. The goal was to freeze a single moment in time and to capture the emotions of that moment.
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Stream of Consciousness

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A term used to describe the natural flow of a person's thoughts. An unorganized and seemingly unconnected series of insigts, memories and reflections.
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Symbolism

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A literary movement in which writers try to convey meaning through clusters of symbols such as people, places, objects or actions that have meaning in themselves and also represent something larger.
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Satire

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A type of writing that ridicules, criticizes or makes fun of certain individuals, institutions, types of behavior or humanity. The purpose is to promote changes in society or humanity.
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The Harlem Renaissance

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Established in the 1920s as southern blacks moved North hoping to find opportunities, Harlem (in New York City) developed into a cultural center for American blacks. The movement encompassed music, art and literature. One purpose was to prove that black writers could produce equal quality writings. They often expressed their displeasure of their overall condition and they expressed their cultural heritage.
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