Tiffany Harrend

1 OConnor

Absent 5/4/16

Ava chabot
Sara Teasdale
Weak and got sick a lot
First poem was published in a town newspaper
There will come rain
Images-robin, frog singing
Devices-personification, sad tone
Hannah Herman
Robert burns
Born to tenant farmers
Basic life
Had a lot of children with different women
A mans a man for that
Images- slave walking, King
Devices-allusions, imagery
Colten Ronshausen
William Bulter Years
Born in Ireland
Married Maud Gonne
Died at 73
The rose tree
Imagery-rose tree, the gardens pride, red blood
Devices-Pearson and Connolly are allusions to war, personification
Alexandra Hisen
Alexander Pushkin
Born in Moscow, rebellious person, wrote political poems
VRuskin and ludmila
Imagery- mermaid sitting in tree, cat, chicken legs
Devices-allusions to Russia, lost in translation

Christina Lang, Emma duivine

Pete wenz
Went to boot camp in high school, tried to commit suicide and suffers bipolarism.
You're crashing but you're no wave
Images-judge, mockingbird
Devices-sarcasm, allusions.
Daxton Hoga
Emily Dickinson
Born in Massachusets
Smart and wanted to impress her father
Wasn't religious
About loneliness. No name
Devices-Lyrical poems, Common meter, Dashes, word choice
Images-trapped, isolated.
Jordyn zanjoc
Oscar Wilde
Father was Doctor
Mother was a poet
Loved Greek and Roman mythology
Went to jail for two years
From spring days to winter
Devices- tone, word choice
Imagers-dove dies, cherry blossom
Kylie Kerr
Elizabeth Barrett browning
Born in England
Lived in Jamaica and owned a lot of slaves
Thought herself Hebrew
How I love thee
Devices-repetition, similes,
Images-out of sight love, container, rings connected
Amanda King
Walt Whitman
Born in New York
Stopped attending school at age 11
O captain my captain

Devices-repetition, allusions
Images-president Lincoln, ship
Barbara Garza
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Brazilian poets
Parents wanted him to get a degree
Wrote three books
To remember life
Devices-speaker, mood
Images-death, heaven or hell
Kapeana spring
Richard brautigan
Died in California
Liked in Oregon and Washington during World War Two
Got sent to an asylum for being thought crazy
All washed over by machines of love and grace
Devices-allusions,
Images-large computers,
Jorge Villalobos
Octavio Paz
Mexican poet
Spoke during Spain's civil war
Studied at UC Berkeley
Received Nobel prize
The street
Devices-repetition, metaphors
Images-sound of crunching leaves, spinning eyes.
Jacob Sullivan
Tupac
Leland parish crooks
Family members part of the black panther party
Attended tam high school
The rose that grew from concrete
Devices- imagery, metaphors
Images-rose, out of place success
Charlie winter

Robert frost
Born in San Francisco
Went to Harvard but never got a proper degree
Won four Pulitzer Prizes
Spoke at jfk inauguration
Uses nature as muse
Nothing gold can stay
Devices-symbolism, theme
Images-gold, nature
Tessa cooper
Edgar Allen Poe
He was sad.
Born in 1809
2 siblings
Worked for the army
The Raven
Devices- allusions, personification
Images-Raven, night time
Tessa Irwin
Rita dove
Born in Ohio
Good student
Top 100 students on the country's defense got invited to the White House
Taught
Wrote two books(poetry collection)
The golden oldie
Devices-irony,
Images-car in driveway, piano
Simone smith
Mary Oliver
Born in Ohio too
No degree
Lives in Florida
Draws info from forest
Pink moon the pond
Devices-imagery, personification
Imagery-water, drowning, pond

Kameron Grant
Lewis Carroll
Born with a different name
Born in England
Was able to talk to kids rather than adults
A boat in a sunny sky
Devices-repetition, personification, alliteration
Imagery-river, girls
Griffin Epstein
E.e. Cummings
Started writing poems at ten
Went to Harvard
Also painted
Has abstract style
O street spontaneous
Devices-euphony, alliteration, similes, personification
Imagery-nature, love
Michael iwamiya
Langston Hughes
Was a ship crew member
Was influenced by Walt Whitman
Wrote autobiography
Let America be America Again
Devices- rhyme, assonance
Imagery-Indian landscape, slaves, nature
Sydney Dennis
Homer
Born in 800 BCE
Could be one person or a group of poets
Believe to have a musical background
Sea perils and defeat
Devices-imagery, simile
Imagery-ocean, trees, boat
Erika Gilmore
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Born in Scotland
Was ill a lot of his childhood

Trained himself to become a writer in college

Foreign lands
Devices-personification, theme
Imagery-cherry tree, travels
Quinn Davis
Henry wadsworth Longfellow
Born into a wealthy family
Was expected to become a lawyer but became a poet instead
Aftermath
Devices-basic words, narrative
Imagery-forest fire, plants regrowing
Reily Melov
Seamus Heaney
Died in 2013
Irish poet
Limbo
Devices-metaphors, allusions,
Imagery-child, shame