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ENGLISH MIDTERM (POETS)
mr dondondon
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12th Grade
01/17/2011

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walt whitman
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he lived a bohemian or hippie lifestlye and his poems dealt with issues of morality, politics and sexuality, among other topics. His anthology "leaves of grass" was continually revised
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percy shelley
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maried to mary, whose story frankenstein rivaled his romantic poetry in popularity OZYMANDIAS
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edna st. vincent millay
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NEW YORK HOSPITAL
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dylan thomas
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welsh wild man, white horse inn, greenwich village
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robert burns
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THE BARD OF SCOTLAND
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robert frost
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amreica's poet of the 20th....common snese and plain language
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william blake
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faith and spirituality but not the formal religion onf the ANglican Church, considered great britains greatest poet during the 18th cent.
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bob dylan
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zimmerman, modern troubadour
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langston hughes
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representative of the harlem renaissance
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thomas hardy
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brit. poet who had studied architecture; as such, his poems are highly structured
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emily dickenson
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solitary life in attic had passions which touched the world
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gwendolyn brooks
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wrote about modern black experience in america
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andrew marvell
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member of british parliment
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john milton
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born to affluent family, became blind and a political prisoner for his outspoken views regarding the british monarchy
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edgar lee masters
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remember: tombstones
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WHO WROTE: THE LAMB
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william blake
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WHO WROTE: MLK AND WE REAL COOL
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gwendolyn brooks
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WHO WROTE: the pasture
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robert frost
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who wrote poet to bigot
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langston hughes
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who wrote the man he killed
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thomas hardy
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who wrote richard cory
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edward arlington robinson
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who wrote spoon river anthology
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edgar lee masters
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"dont stand in the doorway, dont block up the halls"
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bob dylan- the times they are a-changin'
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"your moments is a stone. My moment is a flower"
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langston huges- poet to bigot
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so one we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat and cured the bread
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edward a. robinson- richard cory
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"had we but world enought, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime"
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Marvell- his coy mistress
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"yes, and how quaint and curious war is"
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thomas hardy- the man he killed
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"I shan't be gone long. You come too."
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robert frost- the pasture
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"rage, rage against the dying of the light"
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dylan thomas- do not go gentle into that good night
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"gliding out, i wander'd off by myself into the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, look'd up in perfect silence at the stars"
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walt whitman- when i heard the learn'd astronomer
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"might i but moor- in thee-- tonight
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emily dickenson- wild nights- wild nights!
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"it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain"
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edna st. vincent millay- Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink
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"the pool players. seven at the golden shovel"
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Gwendolyn Brook- we real cool
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"he is meek and He is mild, he became a little child"
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William Blake- the lamb
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"the also serve who only stand and wait"
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John Milton - When I Consider How My Life is Spent
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"nothing beside remains. round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the long and level sands strtch far away"
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Percy Shelly- OZYMANDIAS
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