2nd Grade Poems Reference Chart
2nd Grade Poems Reference Chart
at a Glance
Poet · Era · Form · Rhyme · Meter · Theme — all in one place
Elizabethan
1
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Fair Youth Sequence (Sonnet 30) | Nostalgia, Grief, Restorative Power of Love
Jacobean
2
John Donne (1572–1631)
Inverted Aubade · Libertine Poem · In medias res · Dramatic lyric | Supremacy of Love
Caroline
3
John Milton (1608–1674)
Sonnet 7 · Autobiographical | Passage of Time and Youth; Faith in Divine Plan
Restoration
4
John Dryden (1631–1700)
Fusion: Classical + Biblical · Father of English Criticism · Heroic Couplets | Divine Power of Music
Romantic
5
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) · Poet of Nature · Pantheism (God = Nature) | Transformative power of natural music on human emotions and memory
6
John Keats (1795–1821)
Escapism · Negative Capability · Sensuousness · Cockney School | True beauty gives everlasting delight, never fades
Victorian
7
Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
Heroic spirit · Carpe Diem · Epigram | Restless Ambition and Quest for Adventure
8
Modern
9
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Inferno Canto 27 (Epigraph) · Ironic · Stream of Consciousness | Alienation · Aging · Indecision · Objective Correlative
Postcolonial Poets
Chilean & Indian voices — 1950s to the 21st century
10
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) · Post-colonial (Chilean)
Imperative expressions (“Let us…”) – universal address · Anti-war | Introspection ≠ Inactivity
11
Toru Dutt (1856–1877) · Post-colonial (Indian)
Autobiographical · Elegiac tone | Childhood nostalgia · Memory & Loss
12
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) · Post-colonial (Indian)
Magnum opus — Savitri · Integral Yoga · Life Divine · Allegorical · Impersonal God | Soul moves through darkness (ignorance), faces doubts & fears, persists toward divine light
13
Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004) · Post-colonial (Indian)
Superstition vs Rationality · Mother’s self-effacing love
14
Arun Kolatkar (1932–2004) · Post-colonial (Indian)
Direct 2nd person narration · Colloquial style · Blend of realism + irony | Faith vs Skepticism
15
Kamala Das (1934–2009) · Post-colonial (Indian)
Enjambment · Feminism · Conversational · Stream of Consciousness · Confessional (Autobiographical) · Iconoclast | Aging and Mortality
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