Perrines Sound and Sense

by Perrine, Laurence

• ISBN13: 9780155030282
• ISBN10: 0155030280
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-26
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Part 1 The Elements of Poetry	1	(268)
What Is Poetry?	3	(17)
The Eagle	5	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Winter	6	(1)
William Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum Est	7	(3)
Wilfred Owen
Spring	10	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Whipping	11	(1)
Robert Hayden
The Computation	12	(1)
John Donne
Hawk Roosting	13	(1)
Ted Hughes
Ballad of Birmingham	14	(1)
Dudley Randall
The Red Wheelbarrow	15	(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Pasture	15	(1)
Robert Frost
Terence, this is stupid stuff	16	(2)
A. E. Housman
Ars Poetica	18	(2)
Archibald MacLeish
Reading the Poem	20	(17)
The Man He Killed	22	(1)
Thomas Hardy
A Study of Reading Habits	23	(4)
Philip Larkin
Is my team plowing	27	(3)
A. E. Housman
General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation	29	(1)
Break of Day	30	(1)
John Donne
There's been a death in the opposite house	30	(1)
Emily Dickinson
When in Rome	31	(1)
Mari Evans
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	32	(1)
Ezra Pound
The Mill	33	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mirror	34	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Subalterns	35	(2)
Thomas Hardy
Exercise	36	(1)
Denotation and Connotation	37	(12)
There is no frigate like a book	37	(2)
Emily Dickinson
When my love swears that she is made of truth	39	(1)
William Shakespeare
Pathedy of Manners	40	(3)
Ellen Kay
Exercises	43	(1)
Naming of Parts	43	(1)
Henry Reed
Cross	44	(1)
Langston Hughes
The world is too much with us	45	(1)
William Wordsworth
Eldorado	46	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
A Hymn to God the Father	47	(1)
John Donne
One Art	48	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
Imagery	49	(12)
Meeting at Night	50	(1)
Robert Browning
Parting at Morning	51	(1)
Robert Browning
Spring	52	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	53	(1)
William Carlos Williams
I felt a funeral in my brain	54	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Forge	54	(1)
Seamus Heaney
After Apple-Picking	55	(2)
Robert Frost
Those Winter Sundays	57	(1)
Robert Hayden
The Letter	57	(1)
Jane Kenyon
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	58	(1)
Walt Whitman
Reapers	59	(1)
Jean Toomer
To Autumn	59	(2)
John Keats
Figurative Language Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy	61	(19)
The Guitarist Tunes Up	62	(1)
Frances Cornford
The Hound	62	(1)
Robert Francis
Bereft	63	(1)
Robert Frost
It sifts from leaden sieves	64	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Scholars	66	(1)
Walter de la Mare
Western Wind	67	(4)
Anonymous
Exercise	70	(1)
Mind	71	(1)
Richard Wilbur
I taste a liquor never brewed	71	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Metaphors	72	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Song: Go, lovely rose!	73	(1)
Edmund Waller
Toads	73	(2)
Philip Larkin
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	75	(1)
John Donne
To His Coy Mistress	76	(2)
Andrew Marvell
Suum Cuique	78	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
after minor surgery	78	(1)
Linda Pastan
Dream Deferred	79	(1)
Langston Hughes
Exercises	79	(1)
Figurative Language 2 Symbol, Allegory	80	(21)
The Road Not Taken	80	(2)
Robert Frost
A Noiseless Patient Spider	82	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Sick Rose	83	(2)
William Blake
Digging	85	(3)
Seamus Heaney
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	88	(1)
Robert Herrick
Peace	89	(2)
George Herbert
Fire and Ice	91	(1)
Robert Frost
Ulysses	91	(3)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Curiosity	94	(1)
Alastair Reid
Discovery of the New World	95	(2)
Carter Revard
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	97	(2)
John Donne
Our journey had advanced	99	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Dust of Snow	99	(1)
Robert Frost
Soft Snow	100	(1)
William Blake
Exercises	100	(1)
Figurative Language 3 Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony	101	(21)
Much madness is divinest sense	102	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Sun Rising	103	(1)
John Donne
Incident	104	(2)
Countee Cullen
One Perfect Rose	106	(2)
Dorothy Parker
The Chimney Sweeper	108	(1)
William Blake
Ozymandias	109	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Exercise	110	(1)
Batter my heart, three-personed God	110	(1)
John Donne
Sorting Laundry	111	(2)
Elisavietta Ritchie
The Unknown Citizen	113	(1)
W. H. Auden
Departmental	114	(1)
Robert Frost
The State	115	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket	116	(1)
Howard Nemerov
in the inner city	117	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Mr. Z	117	(1)
M. Carl Holman
Southern Cop	118	(1)
Sterling A. Brown
My Last Duchess	119	(3)
Robert Browning
Allusion	122	(11)
``Out, Out---''	123	(1)
Robert Frost
From Macbeth: She should have died hereafter	124	(2)
William Shakespeare
in Just-	126	(1)
e. e. cummings
On His Blindness	127	(1)
John Milton
Hero and Leander	127	(1)
John Donne
Miniver Cheevy	128	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Leda and the Swan	129	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Leda's Sister and the Geese	130	(1)
Katharyn Howd Machan
An altered look about the hills	130	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Abraham to kill him	131	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say	132	(1)
Benjamin Franklin
A monkey sprang down from a tree	132	(1)
Laurence Perrine
Two brothers devised what at sight	132	(1)
Laurence Perrine
Meaning and Idea	133	(13)
Little Jack Horner	133	(2)
Anonymous
Loveliest of Trees	135	(1)
A. E. Housman
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	135	(2)
Robert Frost
To a Waterfowl	137	(1)
William Cullen Bryant
Design	138	(1)
Robert Frost
The Indifferent	139	(1)
John Donne
Love's Deity	140	(1)
John Donne
To the Mercy Killers	141	(1)
Dudley Randall
How Annandale Went Out	142	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Caged Skylark	143	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
No worst, there is none	143	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Alter! When the hills do	144	(1)
Emily Dickinson
We outgrow love	145	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Exercise	145	(1)
Tone	146	(17)
For a Lamb	148	(1)
Richard Eberhart
Apparently with no surprise	148	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Since there's no help	150	(1)
Michael Drayton
The Coming of Wisdom with Time	151	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Crossing the Bar	151	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Oxen	152	(1)
Thomas Hardy
One dignity delays for all	153	(1)
Emily Dickinson
'Twas warm at first like us	154	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Apparition	154	(2)
John Donne
The Flea	156	(1)
John Donne
Dover Beach	157	(1)
Matthew Arnold
Church Going	158	(3)
Philip Larkin
Getting Out	161	(1)
Cleopatra Mathis
A tiny cry within the night	162	(1)
Lynn Johnston
Exercises	162	(1)
Musical Devices	163	(14)
The Turtle	164	(2)
Ogden Nash
That night when joy began	166	(1)
W. H. Auden
Ettrick	167	(2)
Alicia Ann Spottiswood
God's Grandeur	169	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
We Real Cool	170	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Blackberry Sweet	171	(1)
Dudley Randall
The Snowstorm	171	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As imperceptibly as grief	172	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Seal Lullaby	173	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Shut In	174	(1)
Robert B. Shaw
Traveling through the dark	175	(1)
William Stafford
Nothing Gold Can Stay	176	(1)
Robert Frost
Exercise	176	(1)
Rhythm and Meter	177	(24)
Virtue	182	(10)
George Herbert
Exercises	191	(1)
``Introduction'' to Songs of Innocence	192	(1)
William Blake
It takes all sorts	193	(1)
Robert Frost
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	194	(1)
A. E. Housman
Had I the Choice	194	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Aim Was Song	195	(1)
Robert Frost
Nevertheless	195	(2)
Marianne Moore
To a Daughter Leaving Home	197	(1)
Linda Pastan
Constantly risking absurdity	198	(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Because I could not stop for Death	199	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Break, break, break	200	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Sound and Meaning	201	(18)
Pease porridge hot	201	(1)
Anonymous
Song: Come unto these yellow sands	202	(1)
William Shakespeare
Splinter	203	(1)
Carl Sandburg
Upon Julia's Voice	204	(4)
Robert Herrick
The Span of Life	208	(3)
Robert Frost
Exercise	209	(2)
Sound and Sense	211	(1)
Alexander Pope
I heard a fly buzz when I died	211	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Heaven-Haven	212	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anthem for Doomed Youth	213	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Landcrab	214	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Eight O'Clock	215	(1)
A. E. Housman
At the round earth's imagined corners	215	(1)
John Donne
Blackberry Eating	216	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Bench of Boors	217	(1)
Herman Melville
The Dance	217	(2)
William Carlos Williams
Exercise	218	(1)
Pattern	219	(18)
These are the days when birds come back	220	(2)
Emily Dickinson
An epicure dining at Crewe
Anonymous	222	(1)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	223	(1)
John Keats
That time of year	224	(2)
William Shakespeare
Exercises	225	(1)
A Handful of Limericks	226	(1)
Anonymous
Two Japanese Haiku	227	(1)
Matsuo Basho
Moritake
Poem in October	228	(2)
Dylan Thomas
From Romeo and Juliet	230	(1)
William Shakespeare
Death, be not proud	231	(1)
John Donne
A Wreath	231	(1)
George Herbert
Acquainted with the Night	232	(1)
Robert Frost
The Story We Know	233	(1)
Martha Collins
Edward
Anonymous	234	(2)
A Christmas Tree	236	(1)
William Burford
Exercise	236	(1)
Bad Poetry and Good	237	(14)
God's Will for You and Me	241	(1)
Pied Beauty	242	(1)
A Poison Tree	242	(1)
The Most Vital Thing in Life	243	(1)
Longing	244	(1)
To Marguerite	244	(1)
The Long Voyage	245	(1)
Breathes there the man	245	(1)
The Engine	246	(1)
I like to see it lap the miles	246	(1)
Little Boy Blue	247	(1)
The Toys	248	(1)
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go	249	(1)
Song: Sweetest love, return again	250	(1)
Good Poetry and Great	251	(18)
The Canonization	253	(2)
John Donne
Home Burial	255	(3)
Robert Frost
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	258	(5)
T. S. Eliot
Sunday Morning	263	(6)
Wallace Stevens
Part 2 Poems for Further Reading	269	(80)
Woman Work	271	(1)
Maya Angelou
Siren Song	271	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Musee des Beaux Arts	272	(1)
W. H. Auden
On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High	273	(1)
D. C. Berry
The Lamb	274	(1)
William Blake
The Tiger	274	(1)
William Blake
Low Barometer	275	(1)
Robert Bridges
The Dead	276	(1)
Rupert Brooke
If thou must love me	276	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Good Times	277	(1)
Lucille Clifton
The Lost Baby Poem	277	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Kubla Khan	278	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Money	279	(1)
Victor Contoski
The Listeners	280	(1)
Walter de la Mare
A light exists in spring	281	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A narrow fellow in the grass	282	(1)
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain slant of light	283	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Lipstick on the Mirror	283	(1)
Tom Disch
The Good-Morrow	284	(1)
John Donne
Song: Go and catch a falling star	285	(1)
John Donne
The Triple Fool	286	(1)
John Donne
Vergissmeinnicht	286	(1)
Keith Douglas
The Colonel	287	(1)
Carolyn Forche
Birches	288	(1)
Robert Frost
Desert Places	289	(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	290	(1)
Robert Frost
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	291	(1)
Robert Frost
The oven Bird	291	(1)
Robert Frost
Pushing	292	(1)
Christopher Gilbert
Nikki-Rosa	293	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
The Allegory of the Wolf Boy	293	(1)
Thom Gunn
On the Move	294	(1)
Thom Gunn
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins	295	(1)
R. S. Gwynn
The Red Hat	296	(1)
Rachel Hadas
Channel Firing	297	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush	298	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Dream of Fair Women	299	(1)
Ann Hayes
Redemption	299	(1)
George Herbert
Riddle	300	(1)
William Heyen
Two Different Things	301	(1)
Michael Hogan
To an Athlete Dying Young	302	(1)
A. E. Housman
Bredon Hill	303	(1)
A. E. Housman
Thistles	304	(1)
Ted Hughes
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field	304	(1)
Richard Hugo
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	305	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Song: To Celia	305	(1)
Ben Jonson
Warning	305	(1)
Jenny Joseph
La Belle Dame sans Merci	306	(1)
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn	307	(2)
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale	309	(2)
John Keats
The warden said to me	311	(1)
Etheridge Knight
The Sound of Night	311	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Aubade	312	(1)
Philip Larkin
Offspring	313	(1)
Naomi Long Madgett
Life with Father	314	(1)
Walter McDonald
What Are Year?	315	(1)
Marianne Moore
Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss	316	(1)
Thomas Nashe
what gramma said about her grandpa	317	(1)
nila northSun
The Victims	317	(1)
Sharon Olds
Speaking	318	(1)
Simon F. Ortiz
The Sad Children's Song	319	(1)
Grace Paley
The Hat Lady	319	(1)
Linda Pastan
The Imperfect Paradise	320	(1)
Linda Pastan
A Work of Artifice	321	(1)
Marge Piercy
Spinster	321	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Getting Through	322	(1)
Deborah Pope
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	323	(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	324	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Living in Sin	324	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Nani	325	(1)
Alberto Rios
Mr. Flood's Party	326	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory	327	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Sheaves	328	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
I knew a woman	328	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Fear no more	329	(1)
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds	330	(1)
William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes	330	(1)
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	331	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Fly	331	(1)
Karl Shapiro
Small Town with One Road	332	(1)
Gary Soto
The Beating	333	(1)
Ann Stanford
The Death of a Soldier	334	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	334	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man	335	(1)
Wallace Stevens
A Description of the Morning	335	(1)
Jonathan Swift
From In Memoriam A. H. H.	336	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	336	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill	337	(1)
Dylan Thomas
The Virgins	338	(1)
Derek Walcott
When I Heard the learn'd Astronomer	339	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Writer	339	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Poem	340	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All	341	(1)
William Carlos Williams
To Waken on Old Lady	342	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	342	(1)
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud	343	(1)
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper	343	(1)
William Wordsworth
Sailing to Byzantium	344	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming	345	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole	346	(3)
William Butler Yeats
Appendix: Writing about Poetry	349	(36)
Glossary of Terms	385	(9)
Copyrights and Acknowledgments	394	(7)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	401