POETRY RETEACH REVIEW Spring 2020 Background Information Cavalier

POETRY RETEACH / REVIEW Spring 2020

Background Information Cavalier • Supported King Charles I • Carpe diem • Term for unconcerned person • To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick • • • Romantic Victorian Modern Revolutions Nature Emotion Imagination Individuality The World Is too Much With Us by William Wordsworth • Queen Victoria • Figurative language • Religious doubt • Valued science • Darwin Theory of Evolution • Invictus by Robert Ernest Henley • Early 20 th Century (1900 s) • Multiple wars • Disillusionment • Free verse poetry • Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

Figurative Language ◦ Simile-like a painted ship upon a painted ocean ◦ Metaphor-glorious lamp of heaven, the sun ◦ Personification-the bludgeonings of chance ◦ Repetition-I am the Master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul ◦ Alliteration- But being spent, the worse and worst / Times still succeed the former ◦ Oxymoron-a sordid boon ◦ Allusion-Proteus and Triton ◦ Imagery-The water…/burnt green, and blue, and white ◦ Onomatopoeia-cracked, growled, roared, howled ◦ Irony-Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink.

Themes Supernatural Isolation Guilt Forgiveness From the land of mist Alone, all, all and snow, / The Spirit alone, /Alone on the slide: and it was he / wide, wide sea! That made the ship to go looked to heaven, and tried to pray; / But or ever a prayer had gushed, / A wicked whisper came, and made / My heart as dry as dust. t is the Hermit good! / He'll shrieve my soul he'll wash away / The Albatross's blood Empowerment Respect for Nature Fight for Life I’d rather be a pagan suckled in a creed outworn Rage against the dying of the light. Carpe Diem I am the master of my Gather ye rosebuds fate: / I am the while ye may. captain of my soul.

Tips and Hints Rime of the Ancient Mariner ◦ Review your close reading guide. Cold Read Poetry Analysis ◦ Define words you don’t know. Use the dictionary! ◦ Paraphrase lines you don’t understand.