Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

What is a stanza?

Which line from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden includes an allusion?

Read the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove.This is for the woman with one black wingperched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erectamong parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,who painted herself a present—wildflowers entwining the plaster corsether spine resides in, that flaming pillar—this priestess in the romance of mirrors.Each night she lay down in pain and roseto the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs pantinglike children along the graveled walks of the garden, Diego’slove a skull in the circular windowof the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.

Read the lines from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” and then look at the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet.Today as the news from Selma and Saigonpoisons the air like fallout,I come again to seethe serene, great picture that I love.

Which words from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden most appeals to the sense of sight?

Which lines from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of a rhyme?

Which phrase from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden is an example of a simile?

Read the stanza from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden.O light beheld as through refracting tears.Here is the aura of that worldeach of us has lost.Here is the shadow of its joy.

Read the stanza from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove.This is for the woman with one black wingperched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erectamong parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,who painted herself a present—wildflowers entwining the plaster corsether spine resides in, that flaming pillar—this priestess in the romance of mirrors.

The rhyme pattern that occurs at the ends of lines in poetry is called