Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)

by Gwynn, R. S.

• ISBN13: 9780321366313
• ISBN10: 032136631X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology features more than 250 poems, presenting a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to Cathy Song and Sherman Alexie.Chronologically organized within each genre, the diverse selection of poems covers the full scope of the poetic tradition from popular ballads to works by poets born in the 60s and 70s. An "Introduction to Poetry" offers instruction for reading and analyzing poetry, defining key terms in the context of the discussion. Biographical headnotes highlight common themes and ideas in the authorrs"s body of work. Individuals who want a brief overview of the study of poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxv
Introduction	1	(1)
An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts	1	(1)
Speaker, Listener, and Context	2	(2)
The Star-Spangled Banner	4	(4)
Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic	8	(3)
The Language of Poetry	11	(6)
Figurative Language	17	(4)
Allegory and Symbol	21	(3)
Tone of Voice	24	(2)
Repetition: Sounds and Schemes	26	(2)
Meter and Rhythm	28	(5)
Free Verse, Open Form, and Closed Form	33	(2)
Stanza Forms	35	(2)
Fixed Forms	37	(3)
Literary History and Poetic Conventions	40	(3)
Writing About Poetry	43	(12)
Poetry	55	(400)
Anonymous
Western Wind	57	(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan	57	(1)
Sir Patrick Spens	58	(2)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542)
They Flee from Me	60	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	61	(1)
Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)
Amoretti: Sonnet 75	62	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)
Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1	63	(1)
Robert Southwell (1561?--1595)
The Burning Babe	64	(1)
Michael Drayton (1563--1631)
Idea: Sonnet 61	65	(1)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
Sonnet 18	66	(1)
Sonnet 20	67	(1)
Sonnet 29	67	(1)
Sonnet 73	68	(1)
Sonnet 116	68	(1)
Sonnet 129	69	(1)
Sonnet 130	69	(1)
When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)	70	(1)
Thomas Campion (1567--1620)
There Is a Garden in Her Face	71	(1)
John Donne (1572--1631)
The Canonization	72	(2)
The Flea	74	(1)
Holy Sonnet 10	75	(1)
Holy Sonnet 14	75	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	76	(1)
Ben Jonson (1573--1637)
On My First Son	77	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	78	(1)
Mary Wroth (1587?--1651)
In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn	79	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	80	(1)
George Herbert (1593--1633)
Easter Wings	81	(1)
Love (III)	82	(1)
The Pulley	82	(1)
Redemption	83	(1)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Song	84	(1)
John Milton (1608--1674)
How Soon Hath Time	85	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	85	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	86	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (1612--1672)
The Author to Her Book	87	(1)
Richard Lovelace (1618--1658)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	88	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)
To His Coy Mistress	89	(2)
John Dryden (1631--1700)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	91	(1)
Edward Taylor (1642--1729)
Huswifery	92	(1)
Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)
A Description of a City Shower	93	(2)
Alexander Pope (1688--1744)
from An Essay on Criticism	95	(2)
Ode on Solitude	97	(1)
Thomas Gray (1716--1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	98	(4)
William Blake (1757--1827)
The Chimney Sweeper	102	(1)
The Little Black Boy	103	(1)
A Poison Tree	104	(1)
The Tyger	104	(1)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)
A Red, Red Rose	105	(1)
John Barleycorn	106	(2)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	108	(1)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	109	(1)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room	109	(1)
Ode (Intimations of Immortality . . . )	110	(6)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)
Frost at Midnight	116	(2)
Kubla Khan	118	(2)
Work Without Hope	120	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)
She Walks in Beauty	121	(1)
Stanzas	122	(1)
When We Two Parted	122	(1)
Percy Byshe Shelley (1792--1822)
Ode to the West Wind	123	(3)
Ozymandias	126	(1)
William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)
To the Fringed Gentian	126	(1)
John Keats (1795--1821)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	127	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	129	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	131	(2)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	133	(1)
When I Have Fears	134	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)
Sonnets from the Portuguese 18	135	(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43	135	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)
The Arsenal at Springfield	136	(2)
The Cross of Snow	138	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)
The Haunted Palace	138	(2)
Israfel	140	(1)
The Raven	141	(4)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)
The Eagle	145	(1)
The Lady of Shalott	145	(5)
Tears, Idle Tears	150	(1)
Ulysses	151	(2)
Robert Browning (1812--1889)
My Last Duchess	153	(2)
Porphyria's Lover	155	(2)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	157	(6)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	163	(1)
O Captain! My Captain!	163	(1)
Song of Myself, 1	164	(1)
Song of Myself, 5	165	(1)
Song of Myself, 6	166	(1)
Song of Myself, 11	167	(1)
Song of Myself, 21	168	(1)
Song of Myself, 32	169	(1)
Song of Myself, 47	170	(1)
Song of Myself, 52	171	(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	172	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)
Dover Beach	173	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	174	(1)
The Brain Is Wider than the Sky	175	(1)
I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain	176	(1)
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense	177	(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	177	(1)
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church	178	(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society	178	(1)
Tell All the Truth, But Tell It Slant	179	(1)
There's a Certain Slant of Light	179	(1)
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	180	(1)
Christina Rossetti (1830--1894)
Up-Hill	181	(1)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?	182	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	183	(2)
Neutral Tones	185	(1)
The Ruined Maid	186	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)
God's Grandeur	187	(1)
Pied Beauty	187	(1)
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child	188	(1)
The Windhover	188	(1)
Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)
The New Colossus	189	(1)
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)
Eight O'Clock	190	(1)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	191	(1)
Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall	191	(1)
``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff ...''	192	(2)
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	194	(1)
Leda and the Swan	195	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	195	(1)
The Second Coming	196	(1)
The Song of Wandering Aengus	197	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)
Firelight	198	(1)
Eros Turannos	199	(1)
The Mill	200	(1)
Richard Cory	201	(1)
Stephen Crane (1871--1900)
The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers	202	(1)
The Wayfarer	203	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)
We Wear the Mask	203	(1)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)
Acquainted with the Night	204	(1)
After Apple-Picking	205	(1)
Design	206	(1)
Home Burial	207	(3)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	210	(1)
The Road Not Taken	211	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	212	(1)
Adelaide Crapsey (1878--1914)
Amaze	212	(1)
Languor After Pain	213	(1)
Trapped	213	(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)
Anecdote of the Jar	213	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	214	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	215	(1)
The Snow Man	215	(1)
Sunday Morning	216	(4)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother	220	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	221	(1)
Spring and All	222	(1)
This Is Just to Say	223	(1)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
In a Station of the Metro	223	(1)
Portrait d'une Femme	224	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	225	(1)
Elinor Wylie (1885--1928)
Let No Charitable Hope	226	(1)
Ophelia	226	(1)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)
Pear Tree	227	(1)
Sea Rose	228	(1)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)
Dreamers	228	(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)
The Purse-Seine	229	(2)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)
The Fish	231	(1)
Silence	232	(1)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)
Journey of the Magi	233	(2)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	235	(4)
Preludes	239	(2)
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)
The Equilibrists	241	(2)
Piazza Piece	243	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)
If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way	243	(1)
Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word	244	(1)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why	245	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est	245	(2)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)
in just	247	(1)
nobody loses all the time	248	(1)
pity this busy monster, manunkind	249	(1)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	250	(1)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)
Georgia Dusk	251	(1)
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)
Women	252	(1)
Hart Crane (1899--1933)
Chaplinesque	253	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
Dream Boogie	254	(1)
Theme for English B	255	(1)
The Weary Blues	256	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)
Our Bog Is Dood	257	(1)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)
Incident	258	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	259	(1)
A. D. Hope (1907--2000)
Imperial Adam	260	(2)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
As I Walked Out One Evening	262	(2)
Musee des Beaux Arts	264	(1)
The Unknown Citizen	265	(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)
Dolor	266	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	266	(1)
Root Cellar	267	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)
The Fish	268	(2)
Sestina	270	(1)
One Art	271	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)
Those Winter Sundays	272	(1)
Dudley Randall (1914--2000)
Ballad of Birmingham	273	(1)
William Stafford (1914--1993)
Traveling Through the Dark	274	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	275	(1)
Fern Hill	276	(2)
Weldon Kees (1914--1955)
For My Daughter	278	(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)
90 North	279	(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	280	(1)
Margaret Walker (1915--1998)
For Malcolm X	281	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)
the ballad of chocolate Mabbie	282	(1)
the mother	283	(1)
We Real Cool	284	(1)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
For the Union Dead	285	(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
A Coney Island of the Mind, #15	287	(2)
May Swenson (1919--1989)
How Everything Happens	289	(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)
A Primer of the Daily Round	290	(1)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Junk	291	(2)
Playboy	293	(1)
The Writer	294	(1)
Year's End	295	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)
Next, Please	296	(1)
Aubade	297	(1)
This Be The Verse	298	(1)
James Dickey (1923--1997)
The Heaven of Animals	299	(1)
Alan Dugan (1923--2003)
Love Song: I and Thou	300	(2)
Anthony Hecht (1923--2004)
The Book of Yolek	302	(1)
Third Avenue in Sunlight	303	(1)
Daniel Hoffman (b. 1923)
As I Was Going to Saint-Ives	304	(2)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)
The Ache of Marriage	306	(1)
Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
American Classic	307	(1)
My Father in the Night Commanding No	308	(2)
Vassar Miller (1924--1997)
Subterfuge	310	(1)
Donald Justice (1925--2004)
Counting the Mad	311	(1)
Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)
The Ungrateful Garden	312	(1)
Pro Femina: Part Three	313	(2)
Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)
Noted in the New York Times	315	(1)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)
A Supermarket in California	316	(1)
James Merrill (1926--1995)
Casual Wear	317	(1)
Charles on Fire	318	(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)
The Day Lady Died	319	(1)
W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)
Mementos, I	320	(1)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	321	(2)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons	323	(1)
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)
For the Anniversary of My Death	324	(1)
The Last One	324	(2)
James Wright (1927--1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	326	(1)
Saint Judas	327	(1)
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives	328	(1)
You Can Have It	329	(1)
Anne Sexton (1928--1974)
Cinderella	330	(3)
The Truth the Dead Know	333	(1)
Thom Gunn (1929--2004)
From the Wave	334	(1)
Terminal	335	(1)
X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day	336	(1)
September Twelfth, 2001	337	(1)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	338	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	338	(3)
Rape	341	(1)
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)
Pike	342	(2)
Gary Synder (b. 1930)
A Walk	344	(1)
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
Central America	345	(1)
Miller Williams (b. 1930)
The Book	346	(1)
Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
1932	347	(1)
Reading the Obituary Page	348	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)
Daddy	349	(3)
Edge	352	(1)
Metaphors	352	(1)
Gerald Barrax (b. 1933)
Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945--1985	353	(1)
Mark Strand (b. 1934)
The Tunnel	354	(1)
Lewis Turco (b. 1934)
The Premonition	355	(1)
Russell Edson (b. 1935)
Ape	356	(2)
Mary Oliver (b. 1935)
The Black Walnut Tree	358	(1)
Fred Chappell (b. 1936)
Narcissus and Echo	359	(1)
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
homage to my hips	360	(1)
wishes for sons	360	(1)
Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
What's That Smell in the Kitchen?	361	(1)
Betty Adcock (b. 1938)
Voyages	362	(2)
Gary Gildner (b. 1938)
First Practice	364	(1)
Robert Phillips (b. 1938)
Compartments	365	(3)
Dabney Stuart (b. 1938)
Discovering My Daughter	368	(1)
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Siren Song	369	(1)
Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
The Sacred	370	(1)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Digging	371	(1)
Punishment	372	(2)
Ted Kooser (b. 1939)
Abandoned Farmhouse	374	(1)
Al Young (b. 1939)
Sundays in Democracies	375	(2)
Tom Disch (b. 1940)
Ballade of the New God	377	(1)
Florence Cassen Mayers (b. 1940)
All-American Sestina	378	(1)
Pattiann Rogers (b. 1940)
Foreplay	379	(2)
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
Litany	381	(1)
Paradelle for Susan	382	(1)
Robert Hass (b. 1941)
Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan	383	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)
The Serenity in Stones	384	(1)
James Reiss (b. 1941)
Arigato Means Thank You	385	(1)
Gibbons Ruark (b. 1941)
The Visitor	386	(1)
Gladys Cardiff (b. 1942)
Combing	387	(1)
B. H. Fairchild (b. 1942)
Body and Soul	388	(4)
Charles Martin (b. 1942)
E.S.L.	392	(2)
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
The One Girl at the Boys Party	394	(1)
Henry Taylor (b. 1942)
from Brief Candles	395	(1)
Diane Lockward (b. 1943)
My Husband Discovers Poetry	396	(1)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (b. 1943)
Daughter	397	(1)
Robert Morgan (b. 1944)
Mountain Bride	398	(1)
Craig Raine (b. 1944)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	399	(2)
Enid Shomer (b. 1944)
Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen	401	(1)
Wendy Cope (b. 1945)
Rondeau Redouble	402	(1)
Dick Davis (b. 1945)
A Monorhyme for the Shower	403	(1)
Kay Ryan (b. 1945)
Bestiary	404	(1)
Leon Stokesbury (b. 1945)
The Day Kennedy Died	405	(2)
Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946)
The Ballad of Aunt Geneva	407	(1)
Ai (b. 1947)
Child Beater	408	(1)
Jim Hall (b. 1947)
Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too	409	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Facing It	411	(1)
R. S. Gwynn (b. 1948)
Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses an Anthology of Poetry	412	(1)
Timothy Steele (b. 1948)
Sapphics Against Anger	413	(1)
James Fenton (b. 1949)
God, a Poem	414	(2)
Sarah Cortez (b. 1950)
Tu Negrito	416	(1)
Carolyn Forche (b. 1950)
The Colonel	417	(1)
Dana Gioia (b. 1950)
Planting a Sequoia	418	(1)
Rodney Jones (b. 1950)
Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.	419	(2)
Timothy Murphy (b. 1951)
Case Notes	421	(1)
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
She Had Some Horses	422	(2)
Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)
Air View of an Industrial Scene	424	(1)
Robert Wrigley (b. 1951)
Thatcher Bitchboy	425	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica	426	(2)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Adolescence---III	428	(1)
Mark Jarman (b. 1952)
After Disappointment	429	(1)
Julie Kane (b. 1952)
Alan Doll Rap	430	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)
The Traveling Onion	432	(1)
Alberto Rios (b. 1952)
The Purpose of Altar Boys	433	(1)
Julia Alvarez (b. 1953)
Bilingual Sestina	434	(2)
Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)
Dim Lady	436	(1)
Michael Donaghy (1954--2004)
The River in Spate	437	(1)
Kim Addonizio (b. 1954)
Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton	438	(1)
David Mason (b. 1954)
Song of the Powers	439	(1)
Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954)
Welcome to Hiroshima	440	(1)
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
Stamp Collecting	441	(2)
Ginger Andrews (b. 1956)
Primping in the Rearview Mirror	443	(1)
Annie Finch (b. 1956)
Coy Mistress	444	(1)
April Lindner (b. 1962)
First Kiss	445	(1)
Catherine Tufariello (b. 1963)
Useful Advice	446	(1)
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
The Exaggeration of Despair	447	(1)
Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966)
Domestic Work, 1937	448	(1)
Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1968)
Occupation	449	(2)
A. E. Stallings (b. 1968)
Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther	451	(1)
Joshua Mehigan (b. 1969)
Riddle	452	(1)
Beth Ann Fennelly (b. 1971)
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field	453	(2)
Appendix: Traditional Stanza, Fixed, and Nonce Forms	455	(6)
Acknowledgments	461	(10)
Index of Critical Terms	471	(2)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems	473