Untitled Flashcards Set

Couplet & Iambic Meter

🔹 A Satirical Elegy on the Death of the Late Famous General – Jonathan Swift

• Tone: Satirical, mocking

• Subject: Critiques the death of the Duke of Marlborough

• Notable Lines:

  "Behold his funeral appears,
  Nor widow’s sighs, nor orphan’s tears,"

🔹 Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now – A. E. Housman

• Theme: Enjoying nature, fleeting time

• Meter: Iambic tetrameter

• Notable Lines:

  "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
  Is hung with bloom along the bough"

Quatrain

🔹 So We’ll Go No More a Roving – Lord Byron

• Theme: Weariness, the passage of time

• Notable Lines:

  "So we'll go no more a roving
  So late into the night"

🔹 In Memoriam 2 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Theme: Grief, nature, death

• Notable Lines:

  "Old yew, that graspest at the stones
  That name the underlying dead"

🔹 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost

• Theme: Solitude, duty, nature

• Notable Lines:

  "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
  But I have promises to keep"

Ode

🔹 Ode on a Grecian Urn – John Keats

• Theme: Art, time, beauty

• Notable Lines:

  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Sonnet (Italian & English)

🔹 Astrophil and Stella I – Sir Philip Sidney

• Theme: Love, poetic struggle

• Notable Lines:

  "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show"

🔹 Whoso List to Hunt – Sir Thomas Wyatt

• Theme: Love as a chase, unrequited desire

• Notable Lines:

  "Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am"

🔹 Sonnet 73 – William Shakespeare

• Theme: Aging, mortality

• Notable Lines:

  "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

🔹 Sonnet 94 – William Shakespeare

• Theme: Power, control over emotions

• Notable Lines:

  "They that have power to hurt and will do none"

🔹 Sonnet 130 – William Shakespeare

• Theme: Anti-blazon, realistic love

• Notable Lines:

  "My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun"

🔹 Design – Robert Frost

• Theme: Fate, nature’s design

• Notable Lines:

  "I found a dimpled spider, fat and white"

🔹 The World is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth

• Theme: Industrialization vs. nature

• Notable Lines:

  "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"

Blank Verse

🔹 To Be or Not to Be – William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

• Theme: Existentialism, death, indecision

• Notable Lines:

  "To be, or not to be, that is the question"

Free Verse

🔹 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed – Walt Whitman

• Theme: Mourning Lincoln, nature, renewal

• Notable Lines:

  "O powerful western fallen star!"

🔹 Shine, Perishing Republic – Robinson Jeffers

• Theme: Political decay, nature’s endurance

• Notable Lines:

  "The beauty of modern man is not in the person"

🔹 Hurt Hawks – Robinson Jeffers

• Theme: Freedom, nature’s brutality

• Notable Lines:

  "He is strong and pain is worse to the strong"

Villanelle

🔹 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas

• Theme: Fighting against death

• Notable Lines:

  "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

🔹 One Art – Elizabeth Bishop

• Theme: Loss, acceptance

• Notable Lines:

  "The art of losing isn’t hard to master"

Elegy (Pastoral)

🔹 Lycidas – John Milton

• Theme: Mourning, nature, poetic fame

• Notable Lines:

  "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
  Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere"