Poetry and Imagery

An image of an empty house with broken windows and rotting wood creats a feeling of_

• power

• boredom

• loneliness

• enthusiasm

the image of ice winds appeals to oour sense of_

• sight

• touch

• smell

• taste

the imagery that poets creats-

• follows a formula that all poets use

• is secondary to the subject of the poem

• doesn't touch the reader's feelings in significant ways

• is indiviual and part of the poet's personal style

Which description of the father is not an example of the literal imagery of "My Father is a Simple man"

• The father is a farmer.

• The father is a scholar.

• The father is an old man

• the father is a slow walker.

A sensory image is a word or phrase that_

• is found only in poetry.

• appeals to one or more senses

• is part of the rhyme scheme

• creates ironic twist.

Read the lines from “My Mother Pieced Quilts.”

Line 1They were just mean as covers

Line 2 In winters

Line 3 As weapons

Line 4 Against pounding January winds

The poet uses this image to create a feeling of –

• grief

• hope

• panic

• security

Read the lines from “My Mother Pieced Quilts.”

Line 30 and you staking out the plan:

Line 31 whether to put the lilac purple of easter against the red plaid of winter-going-into-spring

Line 32 whether to mix yellow wit blue and white and pain the

Line 33 corpus christi noon when my father held your hand

Line 34 whether to shape a five-point star from the

Line 35 somber black silk you wore to grandmother’s funeral

The poet uses this image to appeal mostly to the reader’s sense of –

• taste

• sight

• touch

• sound

In “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” the quilt pieces also describe the speaker’s –

• family history

• unknown future

• new knowledge

• forgotten dreams

The tone of “My Father Is a Simple Man” and “My Mother Pieced Quilts” is

• funny

• angry

• loving

• gloomy

Both poems, “My Father Is a Simple Man” and “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” are about

• justice

• freedom

• gratitude

• education