1. “Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood.”
Yes No
“Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood.”
“My Tippet – only Tulle”
“Because I could not stop for death.”
“Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee…”
“The foe long since in silence slept”

2. What is it?
Iambic tetrameter

3. THEMES Suggests that snow is a healer… “The First Snowfall” - Lowell
We should honor our fallen war heroes even though the time of war has passed
“Concord Hymn”
-Emerson
“The Snowstorm”
-Emerson
Suggests that snow is an architectural artist…

4. THEMES Depicts death as an ordinary, everyday occurrence
“I Heard a Fly Buzz…”
-Dickinson
Compares human consciousness to vast domains of nature and God
“The Brain – is Wider than the Sky –”
-Dickinson

5. THEMES Compares nature’s never ending cycle to human mortality
“The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”
-Longfellow
A poem written to save an old warship.
“Old Ironsides”
-Holmes

6. THEMES
A spider’s physical exploration is compared to a human’s spiritual exploration
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
-Whitman
“I Hear America Singing”
-Whitman
A celebration of America and its workers.

7. THEMES Live life to the fullest; leave a footprint on the world.
“A Psalm of Life”
-Longfellow
“Thanatopsis”
-Bryant
Death is really just a return to nature.

8. Yes NO “a tapering turret overtops the work” “built in an age…”
“I could not stop for death…”
“furnished with tile, the fierce artificer”
“Where the little headstone stood…”

9. What is it?
consonance

10. Rhyme Scheme On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We place with joy a votive stone,
That memory may their deeds redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone. a b

11. Figurative language and sound devices
Vowel rhyme
assonance
Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
iamb
The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter
alliteration

12. Figurative language and sound devices
The repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession
consonance
A direct address to a person or object
apostrophe
An extravagant statement not intended to be taken literally
hyperbole

13. Yes No “The eagle of the sea…” “And waves were white below…”
“The meteor of the ocean air…”
“And the sudden flurry of snowbirds/Like brown leaves whirling by…”
“Was ridged inch deep with pearl…”

14. What is it?
Metaphor

15. Name the poet! Suffered scarring in a house fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Known as the father of free verse
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
A recluse

16. Name the poet! Suffered the loss of several of his children.
James Russell Lowell
Died of pneumonia; was a minister; known for his optimism and individuality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Was known as the father of American poetry
William Cullen Bryant