RPSC 2nd Grade Poems Reference Chart

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2nd Grade Poems Reference Chart

2nd Grade Poems Reference Chart
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Poet · Era · Form · Rhyme · Meter · Theme — all in one place

 
Elizabethan
1
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Written
1590s
Collection
Quarto (1609)
Form
Shakespearean Sonnet
Rhyme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Meter
Iambic pentameter
Lines
14
Fair Youth Sequence (Sonnet 30) | Nostalgia, Grief, Restorative Power of Love
Jacobean
2
The Sunne Rising
John Donne (1572–1631)
Written
Early 1600s
Collection
Songs and Sonnets (1633)
Form
Metaphysical Love lyric
Rhyme
ABBA CDCD EE
Meter
Irregular Iambic (Penta & Tetra)
Lines
30 / 3 stanzas
Inverted Aubade · Libertine Poem · In medias res · Dramatic lyric | Supremacy of Love
Caroline
3
On His Having Arrived at the Age of 23
John Milton (1608–1674)
Written
1632
Collection
Poems of Mr. John Milton (1645 / 1673)
Form
Petrarchan Sonnet
Rhyme
ABBA ABBA CDE DCE
Meter
Iambic pentameter
Lines
14
Sonnet 7 · Autobiographical | Passage of Time and Youth; Faith in Divine Plan
Restoration
4
A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day
John Dryden (1631–1700)
Written
1687
Collection
1687
Form
Pindaric / Irregular Ode
Rhyme
Irregular (varying)
Meter
Irregular with varied iambic
Lines
Seven stanzas
Fusion: Classical + Biblical · Father of English Criticism · Heroic Couplets | Divine Power of Music
Romantic
5
The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
Written
1805
Collection
Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
Form
Lyric Poem (Ballad-like)
Rhyme
ABCB DD EE (1&4) / ABAB CC DD (2&3)
Meter
Iambic tetrameter
Lines
32 in 4 stanzas
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) · Poet of Nature · Pantheism (God = Nature) | Transformative power of natural music on human emotions and memory
6
A Thing of Beauty
John Keats (1795–1821)
Written
1817
Collection
Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818)
Form
Narrative Poem
Rhyme
Heroic Couplets (AA BB CC …)
Meter
Iambic pentameter
Lines
33
Escapism · Negative Capability · Sensuousness · Cockney School | True beauty gives everlasting delight, never fades
Victorian
7
Ulysses
Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
Written
1833 (after A.H.H.’s death)
Collection
Poems (1842)
Form
Dramatic Monologue
Rhyme
None
Meter
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter = Blank Verse
Lines
70 (three parts)
Heroic spirit · Carpe Diem · Epigram | Restless Ambition and Quest for Adventure
8
The Last Ride Together
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
Written
—
Collection
Men and Women (1855)
Form
Dramatic Monologue
Rhyme
AABB CDDEEEC
Meter
Iambic tetrameter
Lines
Ten 11-line stanzas
Carpe Diem · Optimism despite rejection
Modern
9
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Written
1910–1911
Collection
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1915)
Form
Dramatic Monologue / Free Verse
Rhyme
Irregular
Meter
Irregular
Lines
140
Inferno Canto 27 (Epigraph) · Ironic · Stream of Consciousness | Alienation · Aging · Indecision · Objective Correlative

Postcolonial Poets

Chilean & Indian voices — 1950s to the 21st century

10
Keeping Quiet
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)  ·  Post-colonial (Chilean)
Written
1950s
Collection
Extravagaria (1958)
Form
Lyric Free Verse
Rhyme
No fixed rhyme scheme
Meter
Irregular
Lines
Eight stanzas
Imperative expressions (“Let us…”) – universal address · Anti-war | Introspection ≠ Inactivity
11
Our Casuarina Tree
Toru Dutt (1856–1877)  ·  Post-colonial (Indian)
Written
—
Collection
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1881)
Form
Ode
Rhyme
ABBA CDDC EEE (Octave + Rhyming tercet)
Meter
Iambic pentameter
Lines
Five 11-line stanzas
Autobiographical · Elegiac tone | Childhood nostalgia · Memory & Loss
12
The Pilgrim of the Night
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950)  ·  Post-colonial (Indian)
Written
1938, rev. 1944
Collection
Last Poems (1952)
Form
Shakespearean Sonnet
Rhyme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Meter
Iambic pentameter
Lines
14
Magnum opus — Savitri · Integral Yoga · Life Divine · Allegorical · Impersonal God | Soul moves through darkness (ignorance), faces doubts & fears, persists toward divine light
13
Night of the Scorpion
Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004)  ·  Post-colonial (Indian)
Written
—
Collection
The Exact Name (1965)
Form
Narrative Free Verse
Rhyme
Unrhymed
Meter
Irregular
Lines
Eight stanzas
Superstition vs Rationality · Mother’s self-effacing love
14
The Bus
Arun Kolatkar (1932–2004)  ·  Post-colonial (Indian)
Written
—
Collection
Jejuri (1976)
Form
Narrative Free Verse
Rhyme
No fixed rhyme scheme
Meter
Irregular
Lines
25 in eight stanzas
Direct 2nd person narration · Colloquial style · Blend of realism + irony | Faith vs Skepticism
15
My Mother at Sixty Six
Kamala Das (1934–2009)  ·  Post-colonial (Indian)
Written
Not mentioned
Collection
—
Form
Confessional Lyric / Free Verse
Rhyme
No fixed rhyme scheme
Meter
No regular meter
Lines
20 (one single sentence)
Enjambment · Feminism · Conversational · Stream of Consciousness · Confessional (Autobiographical) · Iconoclast | Aging and Mortality

2nd Grade Poems Reference Chart · 15 Poems · Elizabethan to Postcolonial [Source : G-Help Suratgarh]

 

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