Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.
(from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore)
. . .One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, theresult is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists ofthe imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary
gardens with real toads in them," shallwe have it. . .
(from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore)
The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air.
(from "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens)
1CorrectSelect the correct answer.Which element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" byLangston Hughes?I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.A.The poem uses variations of meter to affect rhyme.B.The poem’s sentences flow across stanzas.C.The poem’s stanzas have varying lengths.D.The poem uses nontraditional syntax and rhyme scheme.
2CorrectSelect the correct answer.What is ironic about the ending of the poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson?
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Copyright © 2019 Edmentum Inc. All Rights Reserved.Elements of Modernist PoetryObjectiveIn this lesson, you willRhyme SchemeSome forms of poetry follow specific ______________________ for rhyme and meter. For example, sonnetsand ballads have particularrhyme schemesthat __________________________ them as unique.Labor with what zeal wewill,Something still remains undone,Something uncompletedstillWaits the rising of thesun.By the bedside, on thestair,At the threshold, near thegates,With its menace or itsprayerLike a medicant itwaits;This poem is traditional; it maintains a________________________ form and a_________________ _______________ of ababcdcd. Every other line rhymes, and each line consistsof seven syllables.Just as this poem’s punctuation and grammar areformal, so are its themes. The speaker is telling of anupcoming, expected event.In modernist poetry, expected events almost always turn out tobe a mirage, forcing one to deal with the ______________________________ of life. The positive aspects of events turn out to be__________________of a person’s imagination.In the modernist literary movement, poets began to______________________ with rhyme and rhyme schemes. They variedthe number of syllables in a line and used unique rhyme schemes or norhyme at all.
Copyright © 2019 Edmentum Inc. All Rights Reserved.Acclaimed modernist poet T. S. Eliot __________________ rhyme scheme in"Rhapsody on a Winter Night":❖The __________________________ rhyme scheme between stanzas is acharacteristic of modernist poetry. Some modernist poets didn’t use a rhymescheme at all, instead writing in ___________ _____________. Thistechnique ______________ rhyme and meter and allowed poetry to flownaturally, more like everyday speech.Irony and ModernismIrony in “Dear Friends”→In the poem "Dear Friends," the speaker’s friends arejudging him by saying that he is_________________ his life. But the speaker is actually enjoying his life muchmorelessthan his friends are theirs.→Even more ironic, the addressees of the poem, supposedly the speaker's friends, are________________________ in the "____________________________" and thus frittering their ownlives away.authors useironyfor avariety of reasonsto show ________________________and ______________________outcomesincluding_______________andto show discrepancies between what is_____________________ and the_____________________ of life
Copyright © 2019 Edmentum Inc. All Rights Reserved.[video]Modernist poetry experiment forms ofpoetry. To better understand and appreciate howthose modernist poetry emerged, it is helpful to review more ___________ styles, such asthe sonnet and the ballad.Ballads•spread by traveling ______________________ called troubadours who traveled throughoutEurope•contain 4 line stanzas called _____________________________ with abcb rhyme scheme•traditional ballads originated as _______________ songsSonnetsuniformly structured with _____lines, possess a specific rhythmand rhyme pattern.Italian or Petrarchan Sonnetsalso written in iambic _____________contains one octave (longer stanza) andone sestet (shorter stanza)Octave: addresses ____________Sestet: _____________ further on topicShakespearean Sonnetswritten in ________ pentameter, whichmeans each line is written in __ feet and eachfoot is a ___________ and __________ syllableEnds in a ______________ of two rhyminglines
Copyright © 2019 Edmentum Inc. All Rights Reserved.Reading SelectionsStrategy for Reading1.Poems can be more easily understood by _____________ them down into______________ _________________.
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