Poetry Frost Hughes Robert Frosts Poetry Used traditional
Poetry Frost & Hughes
Robert Frost’s Poetry Used traditional verse forms and conversational language to paint vivid portraits of the New Englandscape and lifestyle Was emphatic about his belief that a poem should reveal its meaning in a continuous process
Frost - Blank Verse Made use of blank verse in much of his poetry Definitions: Meter - a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables Foot - a basic unit of meter (usually one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables) Iamb - one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Iambic pentameter - a line containing five iambs Blank Verse - verse consisting of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Example of Blank Verse See if you can find where the stressed and unstressed syllables should be placed in the following lines: When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees
Langston Hughes’ Poetry Emerged from the Harlem Renaissance Expresses pride in his heritage and voiced displeasure with the oppression he saw Experimented with a variety of forms and techniques Often tried to recreate the rhythms of contemporary jazz Wanted to express the energy, immediacy, and improvisational feel of jazz and the blues
Hughes - Speaker The speaker is defined as - the voice of the poem Often, the speaker is the poet - but not always Who wrote “Prufrock”? Who was the speaker?
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