Junior Poems for Poetry Test
Multiple Choice Poems
“Thanatopsis” (p. 166)
“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” (p. 171)
“The Raven” (p. 273)
“Eldorado” (p. 280)
“Song of Myself, Number 52” (p. 319)
“If you were coming in the Fall” (p. 338)
“Apparently with no surprise” (p. 344)
“Success is counted sweetest” (p. 345)
“Much Madness is divinest Sense” (p. 350)
“War is Kind” (p. 442)
“Richard Cory” (p. 523)
“Miniver Cheevey” (p. 524)
“The Red Wheelbarrow” (p. 592)
“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” (p.
575)
“somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
behond” (p. 603)
“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” (p. 583)
“Tableau” (p. 745)
“Incident” (p. 747)
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (p. 814)
“The Beautiful Changes” (p. 1039)
“One Art” (p. 1046)
“Mirror” (p. 1050)
“Young” (p. 1058)
“Coastal” (1086)
Essay Question Poems
Emily Dickinson
“The Soul Selects her own Society” (p. 337) and “If you were coming in the Fall” (p. 340)
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Countee Cullen
“Tableau” (p.745) and “Incident” (p. 747)
Know the following about one pair of poems by one author:
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Figures of speech (metaphor, simile, symbol, etc.)
Message
Sound devices (alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm)
Tone
Emotions Evoked
Other Style Aspects (word choice, capitalization, stanza structure, etc.)
Alternate Assignment
All students will complete the essay portion. As another option for the multiple choice portion
students may write five poems in imitation of the style of these five literary periods/poets:
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Romanticism
Realism
Modernism
Whitman or Dickinson
Contemporary
Read background on each literary period/person in order to imitate the style of that period
Each of the five poems must be at least 75 words