Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

by Arp, Thomas R.; Johnson, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780838407462
• ISBN10: 0838407463
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-14
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

An introduction to poetry presented in a compact and concise anthology, SOUND AND SENSE continues the tradition of offering clear, precise writing and practical organization initiated by Laurence Perrine years ago.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Elements of Poetry	1	(300)
What Is Poetry?	2	(20)
The Eagle	4	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Winter	5	(1)
William Shakespeare
Dulce et Decorum Est	6	(3)
Wilfred Owen
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	9	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Whipping	10	(1)
Robert Hayden
The last Night that She lived	11	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Ballad of Birmingham	12	(2)
Dudley Randall
Kitchenette Building	14	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Red Wheelbarrow	14	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Suicide's Note	15	(1)
Langston Hughes
Terence, this is stupid stuff	16	(2)
A. E. Housman
Poetry: I	18	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Ars Poetica	19	(3)
Archibald MacLeish
Suggestions for Writing	20	(2)
Reading the Poem	22	(19)
The Man He Killed	24	(1)
Thomas Hardy
A Study of Reading Habits	25	(4)
Philip Larkin
Is my team plowing	29	(3)
A. E. Housman
General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation	31	(1)
Break of Day	32	(1)
John Donne
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House	32	(1)
Emily Dickinson
When in Rome	33	(2)
Mari Evans
Mirror	35	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Clod and the Pebble	35	(1)
William Blake
Facing It	36	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Eros Turannos	37	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Storm Warnings	39	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Suggestions for Writing	40	(1)
Denotation and Connotation	41	(14)
There is no Frigate like a Book	41	(2)
Emily Dickinson
When my love swears that she is made of truth	43	(1)
William Shakespeare
Pathedy of Manners	44	(3)
Ellen Kay
Exercises	47	(1)
Naming of Parts	47	(1)
Henry Reed
Cross	48	(1)
Langston Hughes
The world is too much with us	49	(1)
William Wordsworth
``I Am in Danger---Sir---''	50	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Desert Places	51	(1)
Robert Frost
A Hymn to God the Father	52	(1)
John Donne
One Art	53	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Suggestions for Writing	54	(1)
Imagery	55	(14)
Meeting at Night	56	(1)
Robert Browning
Parting at Morning	57	(1)
Robert Browning
Exercises	58	(1)
Spring	58	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	59	(1)
William Carlos Williams
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	60	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Living in Sin	61	(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Forge	62	(1)
Seamus Heaney
After Apple-Picking	63	(1)
Robert Frost
Those Winter Sundays	64	(1)
Robert Hayden
Reapers	65	(1)
Jean Toomer
The Destruction of Sennacherib	66	(1)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
To Autumn	67	(2)
John Keats
Suggestions for Writing	68	(1)
Figurative Language I	69	(21)
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy
The Guitarist Tunes Up	70	(1)
Frances Cornford
The Hound	70	(1)
Robert Francis
Bereft	71	(1)
Robert Frost
It sifts from Leaden Sieves	72	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Song of the Powers	74	(2)
David Mason
Bright Star	76	(4)
John Keats
Exercise	79	(1)
Mind	80	(1)
Richard Wilbur
I taste a liquor never brewed	80	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Metaphors	81	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Toads	82	(1)
Philip Larkin
Ghost of a Chance	83	(1)
Adrienne Rich
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	84	(2)
John Donne
To His Coy Mistress	86	(1)
Andrew Marvell
Dream Deferred	87	(1)
Langston Hughes
Introduction to Poetry	88	(2)
Billy Collins
Suggestions for Writing	89	(1)
Figurative Language 2	90	(22)
Symbol, Allegory
The Road Not Taken	90	(2)
Robert Frost
A Noiseless Patient Spider	92	(2)
Walt Whitman
The Sick Rose	94	(1)
William Blake
Digging	95	(3)
Seamus Heaney
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	98	(2)
Robert Herrick
Peace	100	(2)
George Herbert
Exercises	101	(1)
Fire and Ice	102	(1)
Robert Frost
Ulysses	102	(3)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Curiosity	105	(1)
Alastair Reid
The Writer	106	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Power	107	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Because I could not stop for Death	108	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	110	(2)
John Donne
Suggestions for Writing	111	(1)
Figurative Language 3	112	(23)
Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony
Much Madness is divinest Sense	113	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Sun Rising	114	(1)
John Donne
Incident	115	(2)
Countee Cullen
Barbie Doll	117	(2)
Marge Piercy
The Chimney Sweeper	119	(2)
William Blake
Ozymandias	121	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Exercise	121	(1)
Batter my heart, three-personed God	122	(1)
John Donne
Sorting Laundry	123	(2)
Elisavietta Ritchie
The History Teacher	125	(1)
Billy Collins
A Considerable Speck	126	(1)
Robert Frost
The Unknown Citizen	127	(1)
W. H. Auden
American Holiday	128	(1)
Joyce Carol Oates
in the inner city	129	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Mr. Z	130	(1)
M. Carl Holman
Afterward	131	(1)
Adrienne Rich
My Last Duchess	132	(3)
Robert Browning
Suggestions for Writing	134	(1)
Allusion	135	(13)
``Out, Out---''	136	(1)
Robert Frost
From Macbeth (``She should have died hereafter'')	137	(2)
William Shakespeare
e. e. cummings in Just---	139	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	140	(9)
Countee Cullen
On His Blindness	149
John Milton
Hazel Tells La Verne	141	(1)
Katharyn Howd Machan
Miniver Cheevy	142	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Journey of the Magi	143	(2)
T. S. Eliot
Leda and the Swan	145	(1)
William Butler Yeats
I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus	146	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Suggestions for Writing	147	(1)
Meaning and Idea	148	(13)
Loveliest of Trees	149	(1)
A. E. Housman
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	150	(2)
Robert Frost
The Rhodora	152	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Design	153	(1)
Robert Frost
I never saw a Moor	153	(1)
Emily Dickinson
``Faith'' is a fine invention	154	(1)
Emily Dickinson
On the Sonnet	154	(1)
John Keats
Sonnet	155	(1)
Billy Collins
The Indifferent	156	(1)
John Donne
Love's Deity	157	(1)
John Donne
My Number	158	(1)
Billy Collins
I had heard it's a fight	159	(2)
Edwin Denby
Suggestions for Writing	160	(1)
Tone	161	(18)
For a Lamb	163	(1)
Richard Eberhart
Apparently with no surprise	163	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Since there's no help	165	(1)
Michael Drayton
My mistress' eyes	166	(1)
William Shakespeare
Miracle Ice Cream	167	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Crossing the Bar	167	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Oxen	168	(1)
Thomas Hardy
One dignity delays for all	169	(1)
Emily Dickinson
'Twas warm---at first---like Us	170	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Apparition	170	(1)
John Donne
The Flea	171	(2)
John Donne
Dover Beach	173	(1)
Matthew Arnold
Church Going	174	(3)
Philip Larkin
Ending	177	(1)
Gavin Ewart
Anonymous Love	178	(1)
Suggestions for Writing	178	(1)
Musical Devices	179	(16)
The Turtle	180	(2)
Ogden Nash
That night when joy began	182	(1)
W. H. Auden
The Waking	183	(2)
Theodore Roethke
God's Grandeur	185	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Exercise	186	(1)
Blow, blow, thou winter wind	187	(1)
William Shakespeare
We Real Cool	188	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Woman Work	188	(2)
Maya Angelou
Rite of Passage	190	(1)
Sharon Olds
As imperceptibly as Grief	191	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Traveling through the dark	191	(1)
William Stafford
In Those Years	192	(1)
Adrienne Rich
1973	193	(1)
Marilyn Hacker
Nothing Gold Can Stay	194	(1)
Robert Frost
Suggestions for Writing	194	(1)
Rhythm and Meter	195	(27)
Virtue	200	(10)
George Herbert
Exercises	209	(1)
``Introduction'' to Songs of Innocence	210	(1)
William Blake
Had I the Choice	211	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Aim Was Song	212	(1)
Robert Frost
The Knight	213	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Old Ladies' Home	213	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Tropics in New York	214	(1)
Claude McKay
To a Daughter Leaving Home	215	(1)
Linda Pastan
Quinceanera	216	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Constantly risking absurdity	217	(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Blessing	218	(1)
James Wright
Break, break, break	219	(3)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Suggestions for Writing	220	(2)
Sound and Meaning	222	(19)
Eight O'Clock	224	(1)
A. E. Housman
Sound and Sense	225	(4)
Alexander Pope
I heard a Fly buzz---when I died	229	(4)
Emily Dickinson
Exercise	232	(1)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	233	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Landcrab	234	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Recital	235	(1)
John Updike
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	236	(1)
Adrienne Rich
At the round earth's imagined corners	236	(1)
John Donne
Blackberry Eating	237	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Golden Retrievals	238	(1)
Mark Doty
A Fire-Truck	239	(1)
Richard Wilbur
The Dance	239	(2)
William Carlos Williams
Suggestions for Writing	240	(1)
Pattern	241	(20)
The Pulley	242	(2)
George Herbert
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	244	(1)
John Keats
That time of year	245	(2)
William Shakespeare
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	247	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Exercise	248	(1)
From Romeo and Juliet	249	(1)
William Shakespeare
Death, be not proud	250	(1)
John Donne
The White City	250	(1)
Claude McKay
Final Notations	251	(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Story We Know	252	(1)
Martha Collins
Lonely Hearts	253	(1)
Wendy Cope
The Ruined Maid	254	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Acquainted with the Night	255	(1)
Robert Frost
These are the days when Birds come back	256	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Woodchucks	257	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Delight in Disorder	258	(1)
Robert Herrick
In Medias Res	259	(2)
Michael McFee
Suggestions for Writing	260	(1)
Evaluating Poetry I	261	(12)
Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse
God's Will for You and Me	264	(1)
Pied Beauty	264	(1)
A Poison Tree	265	(1)
The Most Vital Thing in Life	265	(1)
Pitcher	266	(1)
The Old-Fashioned Pitcher	267	(1)
The Long Voyage	267	(1)
Breathes there the man	268	(1)
The Engine	268	(1)
I like to see it lap the Miles	269	(1)
The Toys	270	(1)
Little Boy Blue	270	(1)
When I have fears that I may cease to be	271	(1)
O Solitude!	272	(1)
Suggestions for Writing	272	(1)
Evaluating Poetry 2	273	(28)
Poetic Excellence
The Canonization	274	(2)
John Donne
Ode on a Grecian Urn	276	(3)
John Keats
There's a certain Slant of light	279	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Home Burial	280	(4)
Robert Frost
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	284	(5)
T. S. Eliot
Sunday Morning	289	(4)
Wallace Stevens
The Weary Blues	293	(2)
Langston Hughes
The Fish	295	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Diving into the Wreck	297	(4)
Adrienne Rich
Part 2 Writing about Poetry	301	(40)
Why Write about Literature?	303	(1)
For Whom Do You Write?	303	(2)
Two Basic Approaches	305	(1)
Explication	305	(1)
Analysis	306	(1)
Choosing a Topic	306	(4)
Papers That Focus on a Single Poem	307	(1)
Papers of Comparison and Contrast	307	(1)
Papers on a Number of Poems by a Single Author	308	(1)
Papers on a Number of Poems with Some Feature Other than Authorship in Common	309	(1)
Proving Your Point	310	(1)
Writing the Paper	311	(3)
Introducing Quotations (Q1--Q11)	314	(6)
Documentation	320	(7)
Textual Documentation (TD1--TD5)	321	(2)
Parenthetical Documentation (PD1--PD6)	323	(2)
Documentation by Works Cited	325	(2)
Stance and Style (S1--S6)	327	(2)
Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems	329	(5)
Grammar (G1--G2)	329	(1)
Punctuation (P1--P5)	330	(2)
Usage (U1--U2)	332	(2)
Writing Samples	334	(7)
Explication: ``A Study of Reading Habits''	334	(3)
Analysis: Diction in ``Pathedy of Manners''	337	(4)
Part 3 Poems for Further Reading	341	(87)
To Marguerite	342	(1)
Matthew Arnold
Siren Song	342	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Musee des Beaux Arts	343	(1)
W. H. Auden
On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High	344	(1)
D. C. Berry
The Lamb	345	(1)
William Blake
The Tiger	346	(1)
William Blake
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt	347	(1)
David Bottoms
Sadie and Maud	348	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
a song in the front yard	348	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
good times	349	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Women Who Love Angels	350	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Kubla Khan	350	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
War Is Kind	352	(1)
Stephen Crane
Rice Will Grow Again	353	(1)
Frank A. Cross, Jr.
For a Lady I Know	354	(1)
Countee Cullen
A Light exists in Spring	354	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A narrow Fellow in the Grass	355	(1)
Emily Dickinson
I died for Beauty---but was scarce	356	(1)
Emily Dickinson
I like a look of Agony	356	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Good-Morrow	357	(1)
John Donne
Song: Go and catch a falling star	357	(1)
John Donne
The Triple Fool	358	(1)
John Donne
Vergissmeinnicht	359	(1)
Keith Douglas
Guns	360	(1)
W.D. Ehrhart
The Colonel	361	(1)
Carolyn Forche
Birches	362	(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	363	(1)
Robert Frost
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	364	(1)
Robert Frost
The Oven Bird	365	(1)
Robert Frost
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins	365	(2)
R.S. Gwynn
The Red Hat	367	(1)
Rachel Hadas
My Son, My Executioner	367	(1)
Donald Hall
Channel Firing	368	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush	369	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Hap	370	(1)
Thomas Hardy
To an Athlete Dying Young	371	(1)
A.E. Housman
Aunt Sue's Stories	372	(1)
Langston Hughes
Theme for English B	373	(1)
Langston Hughes
Thistles	374	(1)
Ted Hughes
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	374	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Warning	375	(1)
Jenny Joseph
La Belle Dame sans Merci	376	(1)
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale	377	(3)
John Keats
The Sound of Night	380	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Aubade	380	(2)
Philip Larkin
L.A., Loiterings	382	(1)
Larry Levis
Pity me not	383	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Loves of the Parrots	383	(1)
Joyce Carol Oates
I Go Back to May 1937	384	(1)
Sharon Olds
The Victims	385	(1)
Sharon Olds
Wish You Were Here	386	(1)
Robert Phillips
A Work of Artifice	386	(1)
Marge Piercy
Mad Girl's Love Song	387	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Spinster	388	(1)
Sylvia Piath
Wuthering Heights	389	(1)
Sylvia Plath
To the Mercy Killers	390	(1)
Dudley Randall
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	391	(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Delta	391	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Dreamwood	392	(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Fact of a Doorframe	392	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Our Whole Life	393	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Nani	394	(1)
Alberto Rios
The Mill	395	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party	396	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory	397	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
I knew a woman	398	(1)
Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz	399	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Driftwood	399	(1)
Sherod Santos
The Abortion	400	(1)
Anne Sexton
Her Kind	401	(1)
Anne Sexton
Fear no more	402	(1)
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds	402	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Fly	403	(1)
Karl Shapiro
Little Ode to the Wheelchair Boys	404	(1)
Dave Smith
The Youngest Daughter	405	(2)
Cathy Song
Small Town with One Road	407	(1)
Gary Soto
Telephone Conversation	408	(1)
Wole Soyinka
One day I wrote her name upon the strand	409	(1)
Edmund Spenser
The Death of a Soldier	410	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	410	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man	411	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Listening to My Mother's Comic Banter with Sackboys and Servers	412	(1)
Leon Stokesbury
Fern Hill	413	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Blurry Cow	415	(1)
Chase Twichell
Telephone Poles	415	(1)
John Updike
What the Motorcycle Said	416	(1)
Mona Van Duyn
The Virgins	417	(1)
Derek Walcott
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	418	(1)
Walt Whitman
Danse Russe	419	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Poem	419	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All	420	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Henzey's Pond	421	(1)
Ralph Tejeda Wilson
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	421	(1)
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud	422	(1)
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper	423	(1)
William Wordsworth
Portrait	424	(1)
Judith Wright
Sailing to Byzantium	424	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming	425	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole	426	(2)
William Butler Yeats
Glossary of Terms	428	(9)
Copyrights and Acknowledgments	437	(7)
Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines	444