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Poets and Their Styles

Directions: Fill out the table with the correct information about the authors listed.

Author Origin Title of Poem/s Notable Style of

Writing
1. Wole Soyinka Abeokuta, near Idanre, and Other Traditional Yoruban
Ibadan in Western Poems (1967), folk-drama with
Virginia. Poems from Prison European dramatic
(1969), A Shuttle in form
the Crypt (1972)
2. Kahlil Gibran  A Lover's Call XXVII,
Village of Bsharri in His Arabic style was
the Mount Lebanon A Poet's Death is His influenced by the
Mutasarrifate, Life IV, Romantic writers of
Ottoman Syria A Poet's Voice XV. late 19th-century
(modern-day Europe and shows
Lebanon). obvious traces of
English syntax.
3. Hafiz Grew up in Shiraz. I Have Learned So Literary genre of lyric
Much, From the poetry or ghazals,
Large Jug, Drink, All that is the ideal style
the Hemispheres for expressing the
ecstasy of divine
inspiration in the
mystical form of love
poems.
4. To Fu Major Chinese poet  Alone, Looking for Dufu liked to write in
of the Tang Dynasty Blossoms Along the a structured form of
in Gongxian, China River, Ballad of the poetry that was
Army Carts, Ballad of called Lu Shi (律詩)
the Old Cypress. or regulated poetry.

5. Li Po  A Mountain Revelry,
Born in Central Asia, Li Po's writing style
where his ancestors  A Vindication, About is conventional and
had lived in exile Tu Fu contains no new
since the early 7th innovations. He lso
century. tends to look upon
the past more than
the future.
6.Ranbindranath Born in Calcutta, Raja (1910) [The Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore India King of the Dark had a distinctive style
Chamber], Dakghar of writing in prose
(1912), [The Post style rather than
Office], Achalayatan choosing to write in
(1912) poem style.
7.Naowaraat Thailand/Vietnam Mere, Movement Traditional meter and
Pongpaiboon Rhyme Scheme
8.Tran Te Xuong Period of the Tale of Kieu, A Influenced by thee
Chunom Literature, Garland of traditional
Vienam, Vietnamese Verse(collection)
Poet and scholar
9.Geoffrey Chaucer London, England, the The Book of the Iambic pentameter,
outstanding English Duchess, The an unpretentious,
poet before Legend of Good conversational meter
Shakespeare and Women and The with alternate
“the first finder of our Parliament of Fowls, stresses.
language.” Troilus and Criseyde
10. T. S. Eliot American poet, critic “The Love Song of Synonymous with
and publisher TS J. Alfred Prufrock,”, modernism.
Eliot was born into a “The Waste Land” Everything about his
comfortable, (1932), “The Hollow poetry bespeaks high
historically Men” (1925) modernism:
distinguished family
in St. Louis, Missouri
in 1888.
11. Robert Frost Robert Frost was an “The Gift Outright”, Admired for his
American poet. He is “Stopping by Woods mastery of metrical
known for his verses on a Snowy form, which he often
about everyday life in Evening”, “Birches” set against the
the countryside of natural rhythms of
New England. everyday, unadorned
speech.
12.Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was The Fish, Crusoe in Bishop's writing has
born in 1911 England, Filing been described as
in Worcester, Station “close to painting”, it
Massachusetts and has “detached,
grew up there and in descriptive,
Nova Scotia. deliberate, unmoved
qualities”. Her poetry
is known for its
objectivity,
description, and
distant point of view.
13.Langston Hughes Born in Joplin, "Harlem", "The First recognized as a
Missouri, Hughes Weary Blues", "The literary figure during
was the descendant Negro Speaks of the Harlem
of enslaved African Rivers" Renaissance,
American women Hughes was best
and white slave known for his
owners in Kentucky. innovation of the art
He attended high form called jazz
school in Cleveland, poetry.
Ohio, where he wrote
his first poetry, short
stories, and dramatic
plays.
14. Edgar Allan Poe American short-story  “The Cask of Poe's works are
 writer, poet, critic, Amontillado”, quintessential
and editor who is  “The Fall of the examples of Gothic
famous for his House of Usher”, literature. They
cultivation of mystery invoke a feeling of
 “The Pit and the
and the macabre. terror while exploring
Pendulum”
death, despair,
suspense, and the
nuances of romance.
15. Oscar Wilde Born in Dublin, Oscar The Picture of Well-known for
Wilde was a Dorian Gray (1891), the humorous
flamboyant and Lady Windermere's language in his
sparklingly Fan (1892) and The works. As the “lord of
witty Anglo- Importance of Being language”, he
Irish playwright, poet Earnest (1895). deliberately utilizes
and critic. English as a tool to
show the beauty of
the language itself.