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Poetry
Poets
32
English
12th Grade
03/29/2009

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Joseph Addison
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1600's. England. Faith. The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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1900's. England. Intense and dramatic tone. Funeral Blues
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Elizabeth Bishop
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1900's. USA. Detached from personal relations. Love Lies Sleeping.
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William Blake
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1700's. England. Sarcastic verse. A Little Girl Lost.
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Anne Bradstreet
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1600's. England. Used many metaphors. The Four Ages of Man.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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1900's. USA. Ethnicity and childhood. We Real Cool
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Robert Browning
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1800's. England. Dramatic monologue. My Last Duchess.
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Lord Byron
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1700's. England. Personality in tragic revolt from society. She Walks In Beauty.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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1300's. England. French and Italian. The Canterbury Tales.
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Samuel Coleridge
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1700's. England. Simple diction to express complicated feelings or abstract concepts. Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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Emily Dickinson
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1800's. USA. Death and immortality. Going to Heaven!
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John Doyle
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1500's. England. Realism. The Good Morrow.
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T.S. Eliot
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1800's. USA. Death, loss, and spiritual recovery. The Waste Land.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1800's. USA. Spirituality, philosphy, and nature. Ode to Beauty.
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Robert Frost
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1800's. USA. Realistic depictions of rural life. The Road Not Taken.
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Langston Hughes
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1900's. USA. Jazz and blues. The Weary Blues.
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Samuel Johnson
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1700's. England. Laced with moral instruct. One and Twenty.
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Benjamin Johnson
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1500's. England. Greek or Roman models. Hymn to Cynthia.
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John Keats
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1700's. England. Private emotions of individuals. Ode To A Nightingale.
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Robert Lowell
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1900's. USA. Meaty language. Drunken Fiserman.
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Andrew Marvell
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1600's. England. Inspired by the events of the time. Young Love.
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John Milton
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1600's. England. Epic poetry. Paradise Lost.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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1800's. USA. Horror, fantasy, murder, death. Spirits of the Dead.
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Sylvia Plath
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1900's. USA. Confessional genre. Aftermath.
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Alexander Pope
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1600's. England. Emphasized reason and common sense. Sound and Sense.
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Theodore Roethke
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1900's. USA. Nature inspired, rich control of language. My Papa's Waltz.
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Edmund Spenser
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1500's. England. Elizabethan england. The Faerie Queen.
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Lord Tennyson
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1800's. England. Political issues of the time. The Passing of Arthur.
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Derek Walcott
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1900's. St. Lucia. Magic realism. After the Storm.
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Walt Whitman
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1800's. USA. Death and sexuality. A Clear Midnight.
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William Wordsworth
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1700's. England. Common people. I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud.
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William Yeats
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1800's. Ireland. Half-rhymes and rough meters. Brown Penny.
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