“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” By William Wordsworth, 1804

English Romantic Poet

“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes1951

Harlem Renaissance

“I’m Nobody” (1891) and “Hope is the thing with feathers” (1891)By Emily Dickinson

American poet, mid 1800s

“Those Winter Sundays” by

Robert Hayden, 1966

“O Me! O Life!”

1892

Sonnet 18 & Sonnet 130

Shakespeare1564-1616

Sonnet

• Originated in Italy• Form in place by 13th century (14 lines, specific rhyme scheme)• Form has evolved over time• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets• Shakespearean rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg• Italian or Petrarchan sonnets usually take the form of an “argument”-

problem/question + resolution • Sonnet is usually now associated with love poetry