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The Bat
Theodore Roethke
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.a
He likes the attic of an aging house.a

His fingers make a hat about his head.b
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.b

He loops in crazy figures half the night.c
Among the trees that face the corner light.c

But when he brushes up against a screen,d
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:d

For something is amiss or out of place.e
When mice with wings can wear a human face.e

sonnet

1.A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes.
2.A poem in this form.

ex-Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.-shakespeare

allusion

1.a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare.
2.the act of alluding.
3.Obsolete. a metaphor; parable.

ex-Utopian discord
A Pearl Harbor sneak-attack
All roads lead to Rome (often an idiom)
A Draconian law
A modern example of allusion at many levels is Nick Park's Oscar-winning Animation The Wrong Trousers (1993), where Shakespeare's problem play "All's Well That Ends Well" is alluded to by verbatim citation of the title by Wallace, where Hans Cristian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes is alluded to visually by the bald Wallace drying his "hair" with a hair dryer, and where democracy is alluded to via Gromit's reading The Republic by Pluto (sic) (i.e. Plato). Although many commentators have noted various individual allusions in The Wrong Trousers, most take them only as innocent puns or in-jokes, not realising that, taken together, these allusions form other meanings (see intertextuality), and that The Wrong Trousers might be a well-disguised allegory or political satire.
An even more recent example in popular culture was cited recently in The Matrix Reloaded, wherein Morpheus states, "I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream is gone from me (sic)", which alludes to a quote by King Nebuchadnezzar from Daniel 2:3 of the Old Testament. This is known as a religious allusion.
Halcyon days is a reference to calm days once believed to surround the brooding of the Halcyon (Genus).
Land of the Morningstar is a reference to Hell arising from a common misreading of Isaiah 14:12 that names the Devil as the Morningstar. This reading is a misappropriation of the Latin word Lucifer that fails to match a careful reading of the original Hebrew.
Salad days is a reference to Shakespeare's description of youth as a time of naïvité and indiscretion.
A son of the morning is a traveler; an allusion to the practice in the Middle East to rise before dawn so one wouldn't have to travel in the heat of day.
A son of Icarus is an allusion to the Greek mythological story of Icarus, who ignored his father's warning and perished flying too close to the Sun, melting the wax holding on the wings his father had crafted. Since Icarus died without children, the more sensible phrase might be "son of Daedalus" (the father); but Icarus is the one who is remembered, and so "son" is used allegorically, meaning foolish and over-exuberant like Icarus.

mood

1. A state of mind or emotion.
2. A pervading impression of an observer: the somber mood of the painting.
3. An incidence of sulking or angry behavior.
4. Inclination; disposition.

ex-"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering--and it's all over much too soon."
(Woody Allen)

personification

1. The act of personifying.
2. A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative" (Ralph Ellison).
3. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called prosopopeia.
4. Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.

ex-1.The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
2.The run down house appeared depressed.
3.The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow.
4.She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
5.He did not realize that his last chance was walking out the door.
6.The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.
7.The wind howled its mighty objection.
8.The snow swaddled the earth like a mother would her infant child.
9.The river swallowed the earth as the water continued to rise higher and higher.
10.Time flew and before we knew it, it was time for me to go home.
11.The ocean waves lashed out at the boat and the storm continued to brew.
12.My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
13.The thunder grumbled like an old man.
14.The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.
15.Her life passed her by.
16.The sun glared down at me from the sky.
17.The moon winked at me through the clouds above.
18.The wind sang through the meadow.
19.The car was suffering and was in need of some TLC.
20.At precisely 6:30 am my alarm clock sprang to life.
21.The window panes were talking as the wind blew through them.
22.The ocean danced in the moonlight.
23.The words appeared to leap off of the paper as she read the story.
24.The phone awakened with a mighty ring.
25.The funeral raced by me in a blur.
26.While making my way to my car, it appeared to smile at me mischievously.
27.The car, painted lime green, raced by screaming for attention.
28.The butterflies in the meadow seemed to two-step with one another.
29.The waffle jumped up out of the toaster.
30.The popcorn leapt out of the bowl.
31.When the DVD went on sale, it flew off the shelves.
32.I tripped because the curb jumped out in front of me.
33.Time creeps up on you.
34.The news took me by surprise.
35.The fire ran wild.
36.The thunder clapped angrily in the distance.
37.The tornado ran through town without a care.
38.The door protested as it opened slowly.
39.The evil tree was lurking in the shadows.
40.The tree branch moaned as I swung from it.
41.Time marches to the beat of its own drum.
42.The storm attacked the town with great rage.
43.My life came screeching to a halt.
44.The baseball screamed all the way into the outfield.
45.The blizzard swallowed the town.
46.The tsunami raced towards the coastline.
47.The avalanche devoured everything in its path.
48.The pistol glared at me from its holster.
49.The car beckoned me from across the showroom.
50.I could hear Hawaii calling my name.
51.Darkness shouted from a distance.

rhyme

1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
2.
a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
b. Poetry or verse of this kind.
3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.
v. rhymed also rimed, rhym·ing also rim·ing, rhymes also rimes
v.intr.
1. To form a rhyme.
2. To compose rhymes or verse.
3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.
v.tr.
1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.
2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.



ex-Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

quatrain

A stanza or poem of four lines


ex-Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?



-From William Blake's "The Tyger"