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1.   Lyric poetry :  

Lyric poems typically express personal (often emotional) feelings

and are traditionally spoken in the present tense. Modern examples

often have specific rhyming schemes.

      Narrative poetry :

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the

voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in

metred verse. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the

story it relates to may be complex. It is usually dramatic, with objectives, diverse

characters, and metre. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls, and lays.

2.   continuous ( adj.) prolonged without interruption; unceasing

      continual ( adj.)recurring frequently

3.   Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?(Sonnet 18) William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,  

And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ( P 810)

4. metaphor : ( P 805)  A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a

   subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as

   another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is

   closely related to other thetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects

   via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.

5. personification : (Anthropomorphism)

a figure of speech that involves treating something nonhuman, such as an

abstraction, as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities, as in

"Death entered the room."

6. oxymoron :

    An oxymoron is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that

    appear to be contradictory. Oxymora appear in a variety of contexts,

    including inadvertent errors such as ground pilot and literary oxymorons

    crafted to reveal a paradox.

7. analogy :

     agreement or similarity, esp. in a certain limited number of features

     or details; a comparison made to show such a similarity

8. Ode on a Grecian Urn-> is a poem written by the English

    Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 ( P 1098)

9. Because I could not stop for death -> is a lyrical poem by

   Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems ( P 807)

10. Ode to the West Wind -> is an ode written by

      Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 near Florence, Italy. ( P 869)

11. William Faulkner -> Quote       

“I decline to accept the end of man... I refuse to accept this. I believe

   that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal,

   not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice,

   but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and

   endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things.

   It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of

   the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice

   which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the

   record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”

12. To Helen-> is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe.

13. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening-> is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost

14. O Captain! My Captain! -> is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman

15.“ End Of The World ”- Skeeter Davis