Final Study (english Poems)

Quote: “And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all”

Literary Work: Dickinson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”

Device: Metaphor

Theme: Longing is persistent and enduring

Quote: “as a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on”

Literary Work: Douglas’s “The Heart of a Woman”

Device: Imagery

Theme: Emotional confinement and loneliness

Quote: “The arts and sciences, And thousand appliances, The wind that blows Is all that any body knows”

Literary Work: Thoreau’s “Men Say They Know Many Things”

Device: Irony

Theme: Human knowledge is limited

Quote: “does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

Literary Work: Hughes’ “What Happens to a Dream Deferred?”

Device: Simile

Theme: When aspirations are ignored it can be volatile

Quote: “his shiny entrails and the pink swim-bladder”

Literary Work: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

Device: Imagery

Theme: Transformation and respect found through observation

Quote: “He kindly stopped for me. He drove slow”

Literary Work: Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”

Device: Personification

Theme: The end of life is inevitable

Quote: “Nevermore”

Literary Work: Poe’s “The Raven”

Device: Repetition

Theme: Inescapable grief and psychological torment

Quote: “Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Literary Work: Mary Oliver’s “A Summer’s Day”

Device: Rhetorical Question

Theme: Life is sacred and everyone has a purpose

Quote: “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day”

Literary Work: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Device: Irony

Theme: Blind tradition can perpetuate violence

Quote: “You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting”

Literary Work: Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese”

Device: Imagery

Theme: Belonging can be found through nature and acceptance of one’s place in the world

Quote: “I rise / I rise / I rise”

Literary Work: Angelou’s “Still I Rise”

Device: Repetition

Theme: Defiant resistance

Quote: “Be he kiss’d kind maid’s velvet lips’ face, / All eager-lipped I seek the mouth of death”

Literary Work: Bennett’s “Sonnet 1”

Device: Tone Shift

Theme: Deceptiveness of love and fatal attraction

Quote: “Even as the sun rose to shine upon the ruined house, the clock chimed: ‘Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is…’”

Literary Work: Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Device: Situational Irony

Theme: Nature vs. technology

Quote: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us…”

Literary Work: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Device: Symbolism

Theme: The complexity of the American Dream

Quote: “Then I wish I weren’t your daughter,” “I wish you weren’t my mother”

Literary Work: Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

Device: Conflict

Theme: Parent-child conflict

Quote: “for the caged bird sings of freedom / The free bird thinks of another breeze”

Literary Work: Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

Device: Juxtaposition

Theme: Emotional oppression vs. freedom

Quote: “It has a song — / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing”

Literary Work: Dickinson’s “Fame is a Bee”

Device: Extended Metaphor

Theme: The fleeting and painful nature of fame

Quote: “The purple petals, fallen in the pool / Made the black water with their beauty gay”

Literary Work: Emerson’s “Rhodora”

Device: Symbolism

Theme: Nature’s beauty has inherent value

Quote: “sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like the phoenix”

Literary Work: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Device: Symbolism

Theme: Censorship destroys truth and freedom

Transcendentalism

A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized individual intuition, nature, and self-reliance as paths to truth, often rejecting materialism and societal conformity.

Romanticism

A literary and artistic movement that celebrated emotion, imagination, nature, and the individual, often reacting against industrialization and rationalism.

Realism

A literary movement focused on everyday life, ordinary people, and accurate representation of reality.

The Lost Generation

A group of post-WWI writers disillusioned by traditional values and society.

Modernism

A movement that broke from traditional forms, explored alienation, and questioned societal norms.

Dystopian Fiction

A genre that explores societies with oppressive control, often warning against political or social trends.

Science Fiction

A genre dealing with futuristic, imaginative, and technological concepts.