Poetry Unit Day 5 & 6

Movement of art and culture originating in Italy during the 14th century, influenced by the "classic" art of the Greeks & Romans

• English Renaissance

• Italian Renaissance

• Harlem Renaissance

The canon of English language literature includes many great Epic Poems, including two of the most famous

• Iliad & Odyssey

• Beowulf & Paradise Lost

• The Divine Comedy & The Faerie Queene

• Epic of Gilgamesh & Aeneid

Considered by historians to be the "golden age" in English history

• Victorian Age

• Elizabethan Era

• Middle Ages

A group of poets that are remembered for writing about deeper, weighty themes and for their use of poetic conceits

• Cavalier Poets

• Metaphysical Poets

• Romantic Poets

• Lake Poets

Considered to be the greatest Metaphysical poet

• John Donne

• George Herbert

• Ben Jonson

• Andrew Marvell

spent most of his life serving the Church of England as a priest; metaphysical poet, most famous work was The Temple, a book of devotional poetry

• George Herbert

• John Donne

• Robert Herrick

• Andrew Marvell

elements in a poem that spark off the senses, sometimes called "sensory details"

• paradox

• personification

• imagery

• concrete poetry

a figurative language technique of giving human qualities to non-human things

• personification

• paradox

• caesura

• hyperbole

poetry in which the arrangement of words, often in a certain shape, is intended to add certain effects and convey intended ideas

• Concrete Poetry

• Narrative Poetry

• Lyric Poetry

Group of poets famous for their support of the controversial English monarch, Charles I; their poetry glorified beauty, romantic love, social life, sensuality, and the crown

• Metaphysical Poets

• Elizabethan Poets

• Cavalier Poets

• Romantic Poets