| The Elements of Poetry | |
| What is Poetry? | |
| "The Eagle." | |
| "Winter." | |
| "Dulce et Decorum Est." | |
| Reviewing | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Poetry | |
| "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." | |
| "The Whipping." | |
| "The last Night that She lived." | |
| "The Bean Eaters." | |
| "Ballad of Birmingham." | |
| "The Red Wheelbarrow." | |
| "Constantly risking absurdity." | |
| "Suicide's Note." | |
| "Terence, this is stupid stuff." | |
| "Loving in truth." | |
| "Ars Poetica." Suggestions for Writing | |
| Reading The Poem | |
| "The Man He Killed." | |
| "A Study of Reading Habits." | |
| "Is my team plowing." | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Break of Day." | |
| "There's been a Death, in the Opposite House." | |
| "Hawk Roosting." | |
| "When in Rome." | |
| "Mirror." | |
| "The Ruined Maid." | |
| "Ethics." | |
| "Storm Warnings." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Denotation and Connotation | |
| "There is no Frigate like a Book." | |
| "When my love swears that she is made of truth." | |
| "Pathedy of Manners." | |
| Exercises | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Naming of Part s." | |
| "Cross." | |
| "The world is too much with us." | |
| "Desert Places." | |
| "Spring in the Classroom." | |
| "A Hymn to God the Father." | |
| "One Art." Sharon Olds, "35/10." | |
| "My Wife Reads the Paper at Breakfast on the Birthday of the Scottish Poet." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Imagery | |
| "Meeting at Night." | |
| "Part ing at Morning." | |
| Exercises | |
| Reviewing | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring." | |
| "The Widow's Lament in Springtime." | |
| "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." | |
| "Living in Sin." | |
| "The Forge." | |
| "After Apple-Picking." | |
| "Those Winter Sundays." | |
| "Shopping in Tuckahoe." | |
| "An August Night." | |
| "The Snow Man." | |
| "To Autumn." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Figurative Language I Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy | |
| "Harlem" (previously called "Dream Deferred") | |
| Robert Frost, "Bereft." | |
| "It sifts from Leaden Sieves." | |
| "The Author to Her Book." | |
| "Bright Star." | |
| Exercise | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Mind." | |
| "I taste a liquor never brewed." | |
| "Metaphors." | |
| "Toads." | |
| "Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957." | |
| "The Sloth." | |
| "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." | |
| "To His Coy Mistress." | |
| "Introduction to Poetry." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Figurative Language 2 Symbol, Allegory | |
| "The Road Not Taken." | |
| "A Noiseless Patient Spider." | |
| "The Sick Rose." | |
| "Digging." | |
| "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." | |
| "Peace." | |
| Exercises | |
| Reviewing | |
| "The Writer." | |
| "Fire and Ice." | |
| "Up-Hill." | |
| Running on Empty." | |
| "The Truro Bear." | |
| "Because I could not stop for Death." | |
| "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness." | |
| "Weighing the Dog." | |
| "Ulysses." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Figurative Language 3 Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony | |
| "Much Madness is divinest Sense." | |
| "The Sun Rising." | |
| "Incident." | |
| "Barbie Doll." | |
| "The Chimney Sweeper." | |
| "Ozymandias." | |
| Exercise | |
| Reviewing | |
| "A slumber did my spirit seal." | |
| "Batter my heart, three-personed God." | |
| "Sorting Laundry." | |
| "The History Teacher." | |
| "Mid-Term Break." | |
| "A Bitterness." | |
| "The Unknown Citizen." | |
| "in the inner city." | |
| "My Last Duchess." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Allusion | |
| "Out, Out --." | |
| From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter") | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Lilies."Mary Oliver "in Just-." | |
| "On His Blindness." | |
| "Miniver Cheevy." | |
| "My Son the Man." | |
| "Siren Song." | |
| "Journey of the Magi." | |
| "Leda and the Swan." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Meaning and Idea | |
| Anonymous, "Little Jack Horner." | |
| "Loveliest of Trees." | |
| "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." | |
| Reviewing | |
| "The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?" | |
| "Design." | |
| "I never saw a Moor." | |
| "'Faith' is a fine invention." | |
| "O sweet spontaneous." | |
| "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." | |
| "On the Sonnet." | |
| "Sonnet." | |
| "Southern History." | |
| "Kentucky, 1833." | |
| "The Lamb." | |
| "The Tiger." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Tone | |
| "To the Snake." | |
| "A narrow Fellow in the Grass." | |
| "Since there's no help." | |
| "Picnic, Lightning." | |
| Reviewing | |
| "My mistress' eyes." | |
| "Crossing the Bar." | |
| "The Oxen." | |
| "One dignity delays for all." | |
| "'Twas warm - at first - like Us." | |
| "The Apparition." | |
| "The Flea." | |
| "For a Lamb." | |
| "The Rabbit." | |
| "Dover Beach." | |
| "Church Going." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Musical Devices | |
| "The Turtle." | |
| "That night when joy began." | |
| "The Waking." | |
| "God's Grandeur." | |
| Exercise | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Blow, blow, thou winter wind." | |
| "We Real Cool." | |
| "Woman Work." | |
| "Rite of Passage." | |
| "As imperceptibly as Grief." | |
| "Music Lessons." | |
| "Traveling through the dark." | |
| "Song (After Shakespeare)." | |
| "Nothing Gold Can Stay." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Rhythm And Meter "Virtue." | |
| Exercises | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Introduction" to Songs of Innocence | |
| "Had I the Choice." | |
| "The Aim Was Song." | |
| Lord Byron, "Stanzas." | |
| "Old Ladies' Home." | |
| "Africa." | |
| "To a Daughter Leaving Home." | |
| "Porphyria's Lover." | |
| "Break, break, break." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Sound and Meaning | |
| Anonymous, "Pease Porridge Hot." | |
| "Eight O'Clock." | |
| "Sound and Sense." | |
| "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died." | |
| Exercise | |
| Reviewing | |
| "Anthem for Doomed Youth." | |
| "Landcrab." | |
| "Night and the Creation of Geography." | |
| "The Sound of Night." | |
| "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." | |
| "Blackberry Eating." | |
| "Remembered Morning." | |
| "The Dance." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Pattern | |
| "The Pulley." | |
| "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." | |
| "That time of year." | |
| "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." | |
| Exercises | |
| Reviewing | |
| "From Romeo and Juliet." | |
| "Death, be not proud." | |
| "The Folly of Being Comforted." | |
| "The White City." | |
| "America." | |
| "We Wear the Mask." | |
| "Acquainted with the Night." | |
| "Villanelle for an Anniversary." | |
| "The House on the Hill." | |
| "Delight in Disorder." | |
| "Still to be neat." | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Evaluating Poetry I: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse | |
| Reviewing Chapter Fifteen | |
| Anonymous, "God's Will for You and Me." | |
| "Pied Beauty." | |
| "A Poison Tree." | |
| "The Most Vital Thing in Life." | |
| "Lower New York: At Dawn." | |
| "Composed upon Westminster Bridge." | |
| "Piano." | |
| "The Days Gone By." | |
| "The Engine." | |
| "I like to see it lap the Miles." | |
| "When I have fears that I may cease to be." | |
| "O Solitude!" | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence | |
| "The Canonization." | |
| "Ode on a Grecian Urn." | |
| "There's a certain Slant of light." | |
| "Home Burial." | |
| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." | |
| "Sunday Morning." | |
| "The Weary Blues." | |
| "The Fish." | |
| Featured Poets | |
| "A Light exists in Spring." | |
| "A narrow Fellow in the Grass." | |
| "Apparently with no surprise." | |
| "As imperceptibly as Grief." | |
| "Because I could not stop for Death." | |
| "'Faith' is a fine invention." | |
| "I died for Beauty--but was scarce." | |
| "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." | |
| "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died." | |
| "I like a look of Agony." | |
| "I like to see it lap the Miles." | |
| "I never aw a Moor." | |
| "I taste a liquor never brewed." | |
| "It sifts from Leaden Sieves." | |
| 'Much Madness is divinest Sense." | |
| "One dignity delays for all." | |
| "The last Night that She lived." | |
| "There is no Frigate like a Book." | |
| "There's a certain Slant of light." | |
| "There's been a Death, in the Opposite House." | |
| "'Twas warm--at first--like Us." | |
| "A Hymn to God the Father." | |
| "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." | |
| "At the round earth's imagined corners." | |
| Batter my heart, three personed God." | |
| Break of Day." | |
| Death, be not proud." | |
| Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness." | |
| Song: Go and catch a falling star." | |
| The Apparition." | |
| The Canonization." | |
| The Flea." | |
| The Good-Morrow." | |
| The Indifferent." | |
| The Sun Rising." | |
| "Acquainted with the Night." | |
| "After Apple-Picking." | |
| "Bereft." | |
| "Birches." | |
| "Desert Places." | |
| "Design." | |
| "Fire and Ice." | |
| "Home Burial." | |
| "Mending Wall." | |
| "Nothing Gold Can Stay." | |
| "'Out, Out--.'" | |
| "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." | |
| "The Aim Was Song." | |
| "The Road Not Taken." | |
| Contemporary Collection | |
| "Introduction to Poetry." | |
| "Oh, My God." | |
| "Picnic, Lightning." | |
| "Sonnet." | |
| "The Golden Years." | |
| "The History Teacher." | |
| "Weighing the Dog." | |
| "An August Night." | |
| "Digging." | |
| "Follower." | |
| "Mid-Term Break." | |
| "The Forge." | |
| "Villanelle for an Anniversary." | |
| "I Go Back to May 1937." | |
| "My Son the Man." | |
| "Rite of Passage." | |
| "The Planned Child." | |
| "The Victims." "35/10." | |
| "A Bitterness." | |
| "Lilies." | |
| "Music Lessons." | |
| "Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957." | |
| "Spring in the Classroom." | |
| "The Black Snake." | |
| "The Rabbit.? | |
| Writing About Poetry | |
| Why Write about Literature? | |
| For Whom Do You Write? | |
| Two Basic Approaches | |
| Explication | |
| Analysis | |
| Choosing a Topic | |
| Papers That Focus on a Single Poem | |
| Papers of Comparison and Contrast | |
| Papers on a Number of Poems by a Single Author | |
| Papers on a Number of Poems with Some Feature Other than Authorship in Common | |
| Proving Your Point | |
| Writing the Paper | |
| Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11) | |
| Documentation | |
| Textual Documentation (TD1-TD5) | |
| Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) | |
| Documentation by Works Cited | |
| Documentation of Electronic Sources | |
| Stance and Style (S1-S6) | |
| Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
| Grammar (G1-G2) | |
| Punctuation (P1-P5) | |
| Usage (U1-U2) | |
| Writing Samples | |
| Explication: "A Study of Reading Habits." | |
| Analysis: Diction in "Pathedy of Manners.? | |
| Poems for Further Reading | |
| "Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton." | |
| "The Miser." | |
| "Mus?e des Beaux Arts." | |
| "Main Character." | |
| "On Her Loving Two Equally." | |
| "On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High." | |
| "Manners." | |
| "a song in the front yard." | |
| "Grief." | |
| "Witness." | |
| "good times." | |
| "Kubla Khan." | |
| "The Golden Years." | |
| "Oh, My God!" Stephen Crane | |
| "War Is Kind." | |
| "Buffalo Bill's defunct." | |
| "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls." | |
| "Spring is like a perhaps hand." | |
| "A Light exists in Spring." | |
| "Apparently with no surprise." | |
| "I died for Beauty-but was scarce." | |
| "I like a look of Agony." | |
| "At the round earth's imagined corners." | |
| "The Good-Morrow." | |
| "The Indifferent." | |
| "Song: Go and catch a falling star." | |
| "Persephone, Falling." | |
| "Sympathy." | |
| "Christ climbed down." | |
| "The Colonel." | |
| "Birches." | |
| "Mending Wall." | |
| "A Supermarket in California." | |
| "From the Wave." | |
| "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins." | |
| "'Ah, are you digging on my grave?'" | |
| "Channel Firing." | |
| "The Subalterns." | |
| "Follower." | |
| "Love." | |
| "To an Athlete Dying Young." | |
| "Aunt Sue's Stories." | |
| "Mother to Son." | |
| "Negro Servant." | |
| "Theme for English B." | |
| "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." | |
| "Oh, that joy so soon should waste." | |
| "To Celia." | |
| "Warning." | |
| "La Belle Dame sans Merci." | |
| "Ode to a Nightingale." | |
| "Aubade." | |
| "Black Mother Woman." | |
| "Silence." | |
| "Immigrants." | |
| "I Go Back to May 1937." | |
| "The Planned Child." | |
| "The Victims." | |
| "The Black Snake." | |
| "R?sum?." | |
| "I am learning to abandon the world." | |
| "Sentimental Poem." | |
| "A Work of Artifice." | |
| "Mad Girl's Love Song." | |
| "Spinster." | |
| "Wuthering Heights." | |
| "Salutation." | |
| "Poetry: 1." | |
| "The Mill." | |
| "Mr Flood's Part y." | |
| "Richard Cory." | |
| "I knew a woman." | |
| "My Papa's Waltz." | |
| "Song." | |
| "Letter from an Institution." | |
| "Young." | |
| "Let me not to the marriage of true minds." | |
| "Stick Figure." | |
| "Evening Walk." | |
| "Grayheaded Schoolchildren." | |
| "Raptures." | |
| "Not Waving but Drowning." | |
| "Small Town with One Road." | |
| "One day I wrote her name upon the strand." | |
| "Anecdote of the Jar." | |
| "The Death of a Soldier." | |
| "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock." | |
| "The Oak." | |
| "Fern Hill." | |
| "Ex-Basketball Player." | |
| "In Bed with a Book." | |
| "Return to the Swamp." | |
| "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim." | |
| "To a Stranger." | |
| "Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand." | |
| "Spring and All." | |
| "I wandered lonely as a cloud." | |
| "My heart leaps up when I behold." | |
| "The Solitary Reaper." | |
| "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." | |
| "Sailing to Byzantium." | |
| "The Second Coming." | |
| "The Wild Swans at Coole." | |
| Glossary and Index of Literary Terms | |
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