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Exploring Key Concepts in Poetry: Iambs, Elegies, and Notable Works

This comprehensive review touches on essential poetry concepts, including iambs - the rhythmic pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables, exemplified by Shakespeare's famous line, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" It delves into elegies as poems that mourn loss, referencing works like "Richard Cory" and "To an Athlete Dying Young." Additionally, it discusses poetic devices like personification and highlights significant poems and authors, such as John Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud" and Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

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Exploring Key Concepts in Poetry: Iambs, Elegies, and Notable Works

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  1. Poetry Test Review 2012

  2. Question 1 What is an iamb? Repeated pattern of unstressed followed by a stressed syllable U / U / U / U / U / “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

  3. Question 2 Two parts: What is an elegy? A poem that laments the death of a person or the decline of a situation What is an example of an elegy that we have read? Richard Cory, The Unknown Citizen, To an Athlete Dying Young

  4. Question 4 What poetic device stands for giving human characteristics to nonhuman things? Personification

  5. Question 5 Name the poem and the author: “And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke. Why swell’st thou then?” Death, Be Not Proud John Donne

  6. Question 6 Name the poem and the author: “The only other sound’s the sweep of easy wind and downy flake” Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost

  7. Question 7 Name the poem and the author: “Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed” Invictus William Ernest Henley

  8. Question 8 Name the poem and the author: “I want them to waterski” Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins

  9. Question 9 How does the rhyme scheme of “The Unknown Citizen” reflect the speakers lack of personal knowledge regarding the subject JS/07 M 378?

  10. Question 10 What poem is this stanza from, who is the poet, and how do you interpret its meaning? “Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honours out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man” To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman

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