Read "One Generation Passeth Away and Another Cometh.”What does this poem express about the search for meaning?
Which defines the tone of a poem?
Read "Like Brothers We Meet” and "Elegy for the Native Guards.”What do the poems have in common?
Which defines the tone of a poem?
Read "Like Brothers We Meet” and "Elegy for the Native Guards.”How do these poems address the sufferings of war differently?
Read the excerpt from "On Liberty and Slavery.”Oh, Liberty! thou golden prize, So often sought by blood— We crave thy sacred sun to rise, The gift of nature’s God!Bid Slavery hide her haggard face, And barbarism fly: I scorn to see the sad disgrace In which enslaved I lie.Dear Liberty! upon thy breast, I languish to respire; And like the Swan upon her nest, I’d to thy smiles retire.Oh, blest asylum—heavenly balm! Unto thy boughs I flee— And in thy shades the storm shall calm, With songs of Liberty!
Read this excerpt from "Ritmo/Rhythm” by Margarita Engle.Mad and I used to do everything together, but now I need a project all my own, so I roam the green fields, finding bones.The skull of a wild boar. The jawbone of a mule.
Read this excerpt from "Ritmo/Rhythm” by Margarita Engle.Older cousins show me how to shake the mule’s quijada, to make the blunt teeth rattle.Guitars. Drums. Gourds. Sticks.A cow bell. A washboard. Pretty soon, we have a whole orchestra.On Cuban farms, even death can turn into music.
Read "The Southern Refugee” and "South.”How do these poems address the importance of memory differently?
What is a break or pause in the middle of a line, often marked with punctuation, called?
Read this line from "O Captain! My Captain!".O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
Read the excerpt from "Pilgrimage.”At the museum, we marvel at their clothes— preserved under glass—so much smallerthan our own, as if those who wore them were only children. We sleep in their beds,the old mansions hunkered on the bluffs, draped in flowers—funereal—a blurof petals against the river’s gray. The brochure in my room calls thisliving history. The brass plate on the door reads Prissy’s Room. A window framesThe river’s crawl toward the Gulf. In my dream, The ghost of history lies down beside me,rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm.Pilgrimage, "Elegy for the Native Guards", "South" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Read Lincoln’s statement from "The Gettysburg Address."The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Which line from the first stanza of “We Wear the Mask” most effectively uses irony to show social conflict?
Read the sentence. At the performance tonight, I am going to perform a jazz piece that I choreographed ______! Which best fits in the blank?
Read the sentence. The dogs or the cat are responsible for the mess.Which sentence best revises the subject-verb agreement error in the sentence?
Read the excerpt from "Like Brothers We Meet.”The soldier no longer shall roam, But soon shall land safely ashore, Each soon will arrive at his own native home, And struggle in warfare no more.The union of brothers is sweet, Whose wives and children do come, Their sons and fair daughters with pleasure they greet, When long absent fathers come home.Used with permission of the Chapel Hill Historical Society
Read these lines from "O Captain! My Captain!".O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.
How are the themes of "The Colored Soldiers" and "War Is Kind" similar?
Read the final stanza from "The Colored Soldiers." And their deeds shall find a record In the registry of Fame; For their blood has cleansed completely Every blot of Slavery's shame. So all honor and all glory To those noble sons of Ham— The gallant colored soldiers Who fought for Uncle Sam!Which theme of the poem is reflected in this stanza?
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