Poetry for Students

by Milne, Ira Mark

• ISBN13: 9780787635701
• ISBN10: 0787635707
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

This series is designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students studying poetry. A quick but information-rich reference source, each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of 16 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied.

Table of Contents

Guest Foreword ``Just a Few Lines on a Page''	x
David J. Kelly
Introduction	xii
Literary Chronology	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
Contributors	xxi
Anasazi	1	(12)
Gary Snyder
Author Biography	2	(1)
Poem Text	2	(1)
Poem Summary	3	(2)
Themes	5	(1)
Style	6	(1)
Historical Context	6	(2)
Critical Overview	8	(1)
Criticism	8	(5)
Annable Lee	13	(19)
Edgar Allan Poe
Author Biography	13	(1)
Poem Text	14	(1)
Poem Summary	15	(1)
Themes	16	(2)
Style	18	(1)
Historical Context	18	(2)
Critical Overview	20	(1)
Criticism	21	(11)
Barbie Doll	32	(11)
Marge Piercy
Author Biography	33	(1)
Poem Text	33	(1)
Poem Summary	34	(1)
Themes	35	(1)
Style	36	(1)
Historical Context	36	(1)
Critical Overview	37	(1)
Criticism	38	(5)
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art	43	(16)
John Keats
Author Biography	44	(1)
Poem Text	44	(1)
Poem Summary	44	(2)
Themes	46	(1)
Style	47	(1)
Historical Context	47	(2)
Critical Overview	49	(1)
Criticism	49	(10)
Eating Poetry	59	(13)
Mark Strand
Author Biography	60	(1)
Poem Text	60	(1)
Poem Summary	61	(1)
Themes	62	(1)
Style	63	(1)
Historical Context	64	(1)
Critical Overview	65	(1)
Criticism	65	(7)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	72	(34)
Thomas Gray
Author Biography	73	(1)
Poem Text	73	(1)
Poem Summary	74	(4)
Themes	78	(2)
Style	80	(1)
Historical Context	80	(2)
Critical Overview	82	(1)
Criticism	82	(24)
The Exhibit	106	(13)
Lisel Mueller
Author Biography	107	(1)
Poem Text	107	(1)
Poem Summary	108	(1)
Themes	109	(2)
Style	111	(1)
Historical Context	111	(1)
Critical Overview	112	(1)
Criticism	113	(6)
For An Assyrian Frieze	119	(11)
Peter Viereck
Author Biography	119	(1)
Poem Text	120	(1)
Poem Summary	120	(1)
Themes	121	(2)
Style	123	(1)
Historical Context	123	(2)
Critical Overview	125	(1)
Criticism	126	(4)
Four Mountain Wolves	130	(13)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Author Biography	130	(1)
Poem Text	131	(1)
Poem Summary	132	(1)
Themes	132	(1)
Style	133	(1)
Historical Context	134	(2)
Critical Overview	136	(1)
Criticism	136	(7)
In Memory of Radio	143	(14)
Amiri Baraka
Author Biography	144	(1)
Poem Text	144	(1)
Poem Summary	145	(1)
Themes	146	(1)
Style	147	(1)
Historical Context	148	(1)
Critical Overview	149	(1)
Criticism	149	(8)
The Missing	157	(14)
Thom Gunn
Author Biography	158	(1)
Poem Text	158	(1)
Poem Summary	159	(2)
Themes	161	(1)
Style	162	(1)
Historical Context	163	(1)
Critical Overview	164	(1)
Criticism	164	(7)
Old Ironsides	171	(10)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author Biography	172	(1)
Poem Text	172	(1)
Poem Summary	172	(2)
Themes	174	(1)
Style	175	(1)
Historical Context	175	(2)
Critical Overview	177	(1)
Criticism	177	(4)
Psalm 8	181	(16)
Poem Text	182	(1)
Poem Summary	182	(1)
Themes	183	(2)
Style	185	(1)
Historical Context	185	(2)
Critical Overview	187	(1)
Criticism	187	(10)
Reactionary Essay on Applied Science	197	(12)
Phyllis McGinley
Author Biography	198	(1)
Poem Text	199	(1)
Poem Summary	199	(2)
Themes	201	(2)
Style	203	(1)
Historical Context	203	(2)
Critical Overview	205	(1)
Criticism	205	(4)
Sonnet 19	209	(11)
William Shakespeare
Author Biography	210	(1)
Poem Text	210	(1)
Poem Summary	211	(1)
Themes	212	(1)
Style	213	(1)
Historical Context	214	(2)
Critical Overview	216	(1)
Criticism	216	(4)
Saint Francis and the Sow	220	(16)
Galway Kinnell
Author Biography	221	(1)
Poem Text	222	(1)
Poem Summary	222	(2)
Themes	224	(3)
Style	227	(1)
Historical Context	227	(3)
Critical Overview	230	(1)
Criticism	230	(6)
``Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School''	236	(15)
Jane Kenyon
Author Biography	237	(1)
Poem Text	238	(1)
Poem Summary	238	(2)
Themes	240	(2)
Style	242	(1)
Historical Context	243	(1)
Critical Overview	244	(1)
Criticism	245	(6)
War Is Kind	251	(10)
Stephen Crane
Author Biography	252	(1)
Poem Text	252	(1)
Poem Summary	253	(1)
Themes	254	(1)
Style	255	(1)
Historical Context	255	(2)
Critical Overview	257	(1)
Criticism	257	(4)
Glossary of Literary Terms	261	(20)
Cumulative Author/Title Index	281	(4)
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index	285	(4)
Subject/Theme Index	289