Elements of Poetry

Who is the speaker of the poem?

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD 

(William Wordsworth)         

 

 I WANDERED lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,          

When all at once I saw a crowd,          

A host, of golden daffodils;          

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,          

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.             

• Cloud

• William Wordsworth

• The poem

What is poet's purpose?

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

• to describe the plum

• to create a serious confession

• to create a fun confession

The speaker’s voice is often not the voice of the poet but a created voice, a persona.

• True

• False

Who is the persona of "The Chimney Sweeper"?

• William Blake

• Children

• The sweepers

Who is the speaker of this poem?

The Sunset

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The sun sets in the west

 Where it will take its rest.

That’s what I will be

As now I am eighty.

• Sunset

• A man

• A very old person

Where is the setting of Robert Burns' poem?

• in the real life

• yellow wood

• the United Kingdom

The subject of a poem is not the idea or thing that the poem concerns or represents; the center of discussion; the thing being regarded or portrayed.

• true

• false

In a poem, the tone often conveys an attitude toward the person addressed.

What is the tone of this poem?

Marks (1978)

Linda Pastan

 

My husband gives me an A

for last night’s supper,

an incomplete for my ironing,

a B plus in bed.

My son says I am average,

an average mother, but if

I put my mind to it

I could improve,

My daughter believes

in Pass/Fail and tells me

I pass. Wait ‘til they learn

I’m dropping out.

• cheerful

• irony

• questioning

The literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition" is called

• Connotation

• Connotative

• Denotation

• Dennotation

The meaning that we create after reading a poem is called ... meaning

• denotative

• connotative

• connotation

• denotation