Discovering Poetry

by Guth, Hans P.; Rico, Gabriele L.

• ISBN13: 9780132219877
• ISBN10: 0132219875
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-02
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The book elicits the students' intellectual engagement, emotional involvement, and imaginative participation with 393 poems from a blend of classic favorites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Balances classic and modern works by men and women, white authors and minority authors, mainstream and formerly unheard-of voices; presents two or more contrasting interpretations of a work; pairs works from different periods or traditions that share a common theme to spark discussions; provides critical excerpts throughout the book; gives helpful guidelines for writing about important elements of literature; and more. An introductory guide for students of Poetry or Literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Preview What Is Poetry?	3	(33)
Focus on Poetry	3	(2)
Separation	4	(1)
W. S. Merwin
Using the Imagination	5	(3)
Presentiment	6	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost	6	(2)
Robert Frost
Explorations: A Fresh Look	8	(3)
Coping	9	(1)
Audre Lorde
Half Moon	9	(1)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Chemistry	10	(1)
Al Young
Rhymed or Unrhymed Poetry?	11	(2)
This Is Just to Say	12	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Juxtapositions: To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme	13	(2)
The Snail	13	(1)
William Cowper
Living Tenderly	14	(1)
May Swenson
Meter and Free Verse	15	(3)
The Eagle	16	(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
A Noiseless Patient Spider	17	(1)
Walt Whitman
Juxtapositions: Meter and Free Verse	18	(3)
Pity me not because the light of the day	19	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Truth	20	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Close Reading and the Personal Response	21	(5)
Sometimes in Winter	22	(2)
Linda Pastan
Valediction	24	(2)
Seamus Heaney
Explorations: The Personal Response	26	(1)
New Face	26	(1)
Alice Walker
Disillusionment of Ten O'clock	27	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Creative Dimension	27	(1)
Explorations: Reading and Writing Haiku	28	(3)
An old quiet pond	29	(1)
Basho
Whether I sit or lie	29	(1)
Ukihashi
Grasshoppers	30	(1)
Kawai Chigetsu-Ni
How long will it last?	30	(1)
Lady Horikawa
Writing about Literature: Keeping a Poetry Journal (Suggestions for Writing)	31	(5)
Pattern The Whole Poem	36	(33)
Pocus on Pattern	36	(2)
The Peace of Wild Things	37	(1)
Wendell Berry
The Power of Attention	38	(4)
Between Walls	38	(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Possessive	39	(2)
Sharon Olds
Legacy II	41	(1)
Leroy V. Quintana
Juxtapositions: To Look on Nature	42	(2)
The Darkling Thrush	42	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Frog Autumn	43	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Shape of the Poem	44	(4)
Solace	44	(2)
Dorothy Parker
The Genius	46	(1)
Archibald Macleish
A Major Work	46	(1)
William Meredith
To every thing there is a Season	47	(1)
Ecclesiastes
The Opening	48	(1)
Jon Swan
Juxtapositions: Point and Counterpoint	48	(2)
From The Vanity of all Worldly Things	48	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
A Black Man Talks of Reaping	49	(1)
Arna Bontemps
A Sense of Pattern	50	(4)
Alba	51	(1)
Ezra Pound
October 1954	51	(1)
Kay Boyle
anyone lived in a pretty how town	52	(2)
E.E. Cummings
Juxtapositions: The Daily Cycle	54	(4)
New World	55	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
A Lecture upon the Shadow	56	(2)
John Donne
Explorations: Concrete Poetry	58	(1)
Tlingit Concrete Poem	58	(1)
Nora Dauenhauer
Poems for Further Study	59	(4)
Simple Song	59	(1)
Marge Piercy
Oranges	60	(1)
Gary Soto
Junk Mail	61	(1)
James Laughlin
Fire and Ice	62	(1)
Robert Frost
Novella	62	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Writing about Literature: The Whole Paper (From Notes to Revision)	63	(6)
Image The Open Eye	69	(21)
Focus on Image	69	(2)
At the Bomb Testing Site	69	(2)
William Stafford
Visual and Other Images	71	(3)
The Black Snake	71	(2)
Mary Oliver
My Papa's Waltz	73	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Explorations: The Range of Imagery	74	(1)
Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me	74	(1)
Ann Darr
Images and Feelings	75	(2)
The Old Falling Down	75	(1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Those Winter Sundays	76	(1)
Robert Hayden
Juxtapositions: The Sense of Place	77	(2)
One Home	77	(1)
William Stafford
Freeway 280	78	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Poetry and Paraphrase	79	(3)
Trout	79	(1)
Kenneth Rexroth
Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies	80	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems for Further Study	82	(5)
Sunday at the Apple Market	82	(1)
Peter Meinke
To Autumn	83	(1)
John Keats
Preludes	84	(2)
T.S. Eliot
California Hills in August	86	(1)
Dana Gioia
Writing about Literature: Looking at Imagery (Using Detail)	87	(3)
Metaphor Making Connections	90	(25)
Focus on Metaphor	90	(2)
Apparently with no surprise	91	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Reading for Metaphor	92	(3)
For My Grandmother	93	(1)
Countee Cullen
Question	94	(1)
May Swenson
Explorations: Understanding Metaphor	95	(1)
Explorations: The Extended Metaphor	96	(1)
``Hope'' is the thing with feathers	96	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Figurative Language: Metaphor, Simile, Personification	97	(3)
A Red, Red Rose	97	(1)
Robert Burns
The Great Gull	98	(2)
Howard Nemerov
Explorations: Understanding Similes	100	(1)
Explorations: A Dream Deferred	101	(1)
Dream Deferred	101	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Range of Metaphor	102	(2)
My galley charged with forgetfulness	103	(1)
Thomas Wyatt
Sonnet 73	104	(1)
William Shakespeare
Poems for Further Study	104	(6)
La Casa	105	(1)
Rosemary Catacalos
Sonnet 29	105	(1)
William Shakespeare
Anger	106	(1)
Linda Pastan
The Drum	107	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Metaphors	107	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Ocean	108	(1)
Laura St. Martin
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	109	(1)
John Donne
Writing about Literature: Interpreting Metaphor (Organizing the Paper)	110	(5)
Symbol A World of Meanings	115	(26)
Focus on Symbols	115	(2)
To One Steeped in Bitterness	116	(1)
Denise Levertov
The Language of Symbols	117	(7)
The Other House	118	(2)
David Wagoner
They	120	(1)
Donald Finkel
Persimmons	121	(3)
Li-Young Lee
Explorations: Understanding Symbols	124	(1)
Ozymandias	124	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Public and Private Symbols	124	(4)
The Tyger	125	(1)
William Blake
Sailing To Byzantium	126	(2)
William Butler Yeats
Explorations: Crossing the Boundaries	128	(2)
To Drink	128	(2)
Gabriela Mistral
Symbol and Allegory	130	(1)
Uphill	130	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Explorations: Understanding Allegory	131	(1)
A Poison Tree	131	(1)
William Blake
Explorations: Interacting Symbols	131	(1)
Wind and Water and Stone	132	(1)
Octavio Paz
Poems for Further Study	132	(4)
Refugee Ship	133	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Dover Beach	133	(1)
Matthew Arnold
Bright Star	134	(1)
John Keats
My Mama Moved among the Days	135	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	135	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Writing about Literature: Seeing Symbols in Context (Focus on Prewriting)	136	(5)
Words The Web of Language	141	(29)
Focus on Words	141	(2)
Pied Beauty	142	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Willing Ear	143	(3)
Fixer of Midnight	144	(1)
Reuel Denney
The Dance	145	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Explorations: The Sound of the Poem	146	(1)
For Poets	146	(1)
Al Young
The Right Word	147	(4)
The Red Wheelbarrow	148	(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Fish	148	(3)
Elizabeth Bishop
Denotation and Connotation	151	(2)
Poem	152	(1)
Charles Simic
Juxtapositions: Cityscapes	153	(2)
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	153	(1)
William Wordsworth
London	154	(1)
William Blake
The Limits of Language	155	(4)
Cargoes	155	(2)
John Masefield
Peace	157	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Weep and Wail No More	159	(1)
Hugh Macdiarmid
Explorations: The Range of Reference	159	(1)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	159	(1)
John Keats
Explorations: Testing the Boundaries	160	(2)
Fern Hill	160	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Poems for Further Study	162	(5)
Dreams of the Animals	162	(1)
Margaret Atwood
The Windhover	163	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lost Tribe	165	(1)
Wole Soyinka
A Gathering of Deafs	166	(1)
John Heaviside
Writing about Literature: Responding to Connotation (Interpreting Evidence)	167	(3)
Bathtubs, Three Varieties	168	(2)
Jeffrey Harrison
Form Rhyme, Meter, and Stanza	170	(36)
Focus on Form	170	(2)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	171	(1)
William Wordsworth
Rhyme, Alliteration, Free Verse	172	(5)
Black Is the Color	172	(2)
Anonymous
A Description of the Morning	174	(1)
Jonathan Swift
The Soul selects her own Society	175	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Sonnet 30	177	(1)
William Shakespeare
Explorations: Understanding Rhyme	177	(1)
Rhythm and Meter	178	(6)
Dust of Snow	179	(2)
Robert Frost
To---	181	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
O Taste and See	183	(1)
Denise Levertov
Explorations: Understanding Meter	184	(1)
Traditional Stanza Form	185	(5)
O Mistress Mine	185	(1)
William Shakespeare
Under the Greenwood Tree	186	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Ballad of Red Fox	187	(1)
Melvin Walker La Follette
One Art	188	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
When I Consider how my light is spent	189	(1)
John Milton
Explorations: An Unconventional Sonnet	190	(1)
I, being born a woman and distressed	190	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Traditional Form and Open Form	191	(4)
Her Kind	192	(1)
Anne Sexton
I Go Back to May 1937	193	(2)
Sharon Olds
Juxtapositions: Close and Free Translation	195	(1)
The Panther (trans. Hans P. Guth)	195	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Panther (Trans. Robert Bly)	196	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems for Further Study	196	(6)
Lord Randal	197	(1)
Popular Ballad (Anonymous)
Marriage Is a Lovely Thing	198	(1)
Christine De Pisan
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	199	(1)
William Wordsworth
A Litany in Time of Plague	200	(1)
Thomas Nashe
The Waking	201	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Writing about Literature: Relating Form to Meaning (First and Second Draft)	202	(4)
Persona Masks and Faces	206	(22)
Focus on Persona	206	(2)
Hood	207	(1)
C.K. Williams
The Autobiographical ``I''	208	(4)
On My First Son	208	(1)
Ben Jonson
Nurture	209	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Letter to Anaktoria	210	(1)
Sappho
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	211	(1)
Louise Erdrich
Juxtapositions: Variations of ``I''	212	(2)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways	212	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Song in the Front Yard	213	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Public Persona	214	(3)
In My Craft or Sullen Art	214	(1)
Dylan Thomas
I Understand the Large Hearts of Heroes	215	(1)
Walt Whitman
Coal	216	(1)
Audre Lorde
Imagined Selves	217	(3)
Afterwards	218	(1)
Edward Lucie-Smith
Cassandra	218	(1)
Louise Bogan
Women's Program	219	(1)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Explorations: The Dramatic Monologue	220	(2)
My Last Duchess	220	(2)
Robert Browning
Poems for Further Study	222	(3)
Saturday's Child	222	(1)
Countee Cullen
In Mind	223	(1)
Denise Levertov
Legacies	224	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Mirror	224	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Writing about Literature: Playing the Role (Imitation and Parody)	225	(3)
Tone The Human Voice	228	(21)
Pocus on Tone	228	(2)
The Register of Emotions	230	(5)
Sonnet 18	230	(1)
William Shakespeare
Traveling Through the Dark	231	(2)
William Stafford
Latin Night at the Pawnshop	233	(1)
Martin Espada
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter	233	(2)
John Crowe Ransom
Explorations: The Poet's Voice	235	(3)
Song	235	(1)
Robert Hass
The Dream	235	(1)
Louise Bogan
Incident	236	(1)
Countee Cullen
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	237	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Juxtapositions: Poems of Mourning	238	(2)
With Rue My Heart Is Laden	238	(1)
A. E. Housman
Earth and I Gave You Turquoise	239	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
The Uses of Wit	240	(3)
.05	240	(2)
Ishmael Reed
Robin Hood	242	(1)
Eve Merriam
Breath Test	242	(1)
David Wagoner
Explorations: Parodies Regained	243	(1)
Coup de Grace	243	(1)
A. D. Hope
Poems for Further Study	244	(2)
Song	244	(1)
Sir John Suckling
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	244	(1)
Richard Lovelace
Quake Theory	245	(1)
Sharon Olds
If We Must Die	245	(1)
Claude Mckay
Writing about Literature: Responding to Tone (Reading the Clues)	246	(3)
Irony and Paradox Marrying Contraries	249	(24)
Focus on Irony and Paradox	249	(2)
From Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows	250	(1)
Sylvia Plath
The Uses of Irony	251	(5)
A Man Saw A Ball of Gold	251	(1)
Stephen Crane
The Hunter	252	(1)
Ogden Nash
Moving Camp Too Far	253	(1)
Nila Northsun
The Unknown Citizen	254	(1)
W.H. Auden
Dulce et Decorum Est	255	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Juxtapositions: Modern Stephen Crane Parables	256	(2)
The Wayfarer	257	(1)
Stephen Crane
There Was Crimson Clash of War	257	(1)
Stephen Crane
Leader	257	(1)
Bruce Bennett
The Uses of Paradox	258	(3)
I Have Come to the Conclusion	258	(2)
Nelle Fertig
Or Che 'l Ciel e la Terra e 'l Vento Tace	260	(1)
Francesco Petrarca
Sonnet 97	260	(1)
William Shakespeare
Explorations: Understanding Paradox	261	(1)
Explorations: Paradoxes of Faith	262	(2)
The Pulley	262	(1)
George Herbert
Holy Sonnet 10	263	(1)
John Donne
Juxtapositions: Convention and Originality	264	(4)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	264	(1)
Robert Herrick
To His Coy Mistress	265	(2)
Andrew Marvell
I Sing of That Which I Would Rather Hide	267	(1)
Countess of Dia
Poems for Further Study	268	(2)
Ringing the Bells	268	(1)
Anne Sexton
Sonnet 130	269	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Fickle One	269	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Writing about Literature: Exploring Irony and Paradox (Using Quotations)	270	(3)
Theme The Making of Meaning	273	(21)
Focus on Theme	273	(2)
Incantation	274	(1)
Czeslaw Milosz
Idea and Image	275	(5)
Ars Poetica	276	(2)
Archibald Macleish
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	278	(1)
Walt Whitman
Freedom	279	(1)
William Stafford
Explorations: Religion and Poetry	280	(1)
Holy Sonnet 5	280	(1)
John Donne
The Committed Poet	281	(5)
On the Burning of Books	283	(1)
Bertolt Brecht
What Were They Like?	284	(1)
Denise Levertov
Frederick Douglass	285	(1)
Robert Hayden
Juxtapositions: Poems of War	286	(1)
Naming of Parts	286	(1)
Henry Reed
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	287	(1)
Richard Eberhart
Poems for Further Study	287	(4)
The Mutes	288	(1)
Denise Levertov
Born Yesterday	289	(1)
Philip Larkin
Women	290	(1)
Alice Walker
Writing about Literature: Tracing a Common Theme (Comparing and Contrasting)	291	(3)
Myth and Allusion Twice-Told Tales	294	(26)
Focus on Myth	294	(3)
In Just-	296	(1)
E.E. Cummings
The Range of Allusion	297	(2)
Leda and the Swan	297	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Helen	298	(1)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Explorations: Understanding Allusions	299	(1)
Juxtapositions: The Sacrifice of Isaac	300	(1)
Genesis (22:1-13)	300	(1)
The Parable of the Old Men and the Young	301	(1)
Wilfred Owen
The Language of Myth	301	(5)
They Say She Is Veiled	302	(1)
Judy Grahn
Ode on a Grecian Urn	303	(3)
John Keats
Juxtapositions: The Icarus Myth	306
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph	307	(1)
Anne Sexton
The Return of Icarus	308	(2)
David Wagoner
The New Icarus	310	(1)
Vassar Miller
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	311
William Carlos Williams
Modern Myths	3l1	(314)
The Death of Marilyn Monroe	312	(1)
Sharon Olds
Portrait	313	(1)
E.E. Cummings
Poems for further Study	314	(3)
The World Is Too Much with Us	314
William Wordsworth
An Ancient Gesture	3l5	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Exploration over the Rim	3l5	(316)
William Dickey
The Sirens	316	(1)
Donald Finkel
Writing about Literature: Reinterpreting Myth (Focus on Peer Review)	317	(3)
Three Poets in Depth Dickinson, Frost, Brooks	320	(50)
Focus on the Poet	320	(1)
The Poet's Voice	321	(6)
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant	324	(1)
A Bird came down the walk	325	(1)
The Bustle in a House	326	(1)
Explorations: The Poet's Voice	327	(1)
Because I could not stop for Death	327	(1)
Explorations: The Range of Interpretation	328	(1)
I heard a Fly buzz---when I died	328	(1)
Poems for Further Study	329	(7)
Success is counted sweetest	329	(1)
I taste a liquor never brewed	330	(1)
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	330
There's a certain Slant of light	33l	(331)
I'm Nobody! Who are you?	331	(1)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	331	(1)
Much Madness is divinest Sense	332	(1)
I died for Beauty---but was scarce	332	(1)
To hear an Oriole sing	333	(1)
I had been hungry, all the Years	333	(1)
A narrow fellow in the Grass	334	(1)
I never saw a Moor	334	(1)
There is no Frigate like a Book	335	(1)
My life closed twice before its close	335	(1)
Robert Frost: Poet and Persona	336	(8)
The Tuft of Flowers	338	(2)
Mending Wall	340	(3)
Design	343	(1)
Poems for Further Study	344	(6)
After Apple-Picking	345	(1)
The Road Not Taken	346	(1)
The Oven Bird	346	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	346	(1)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	347	(1)
The Silken Tent	347	(1)
Once by the Pacific	348	(1)
The Night Light	349	(1)
On Being Idolized	349	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	349	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks: Commitment and Universality	350	(7)
We Real Cool	351	(1)
Hunchback Girl: She Thinks of Heaven	352	(1)
Piano after War	353	(1)
Mexie and Bridie	354	(1)
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock	355	(2)
Poems for Further Study	357	(6)
When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story	358	(1)
The Chicago Picasso, August 15, 1967	358	(2)
The Preacher Ruminates behind the Sermon	360	(1)
The Ballad of the Light-Eyed Little Girl	360	(1)
The Bean Eaters	361	(1)
The Boy Died in My Alley	361	(2)
Writing about Literature: The Poet and the Critics (Documented Paper)	363	(7)
Perspectives Poets and Critics	370	(18)
Focus on Criticism	370	(1)
Poets on Poetry	371	(4)
From An Essay on Criticism	371	(1)
Alexander Pope
Letter to John Bailey	372	(1)
John Keats
Notes on the Art of Poetry	373	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Poems Are Not Luxuries	374	(1)
Audre Lorde
Juxtapositions: The Poet's Motives	375	(2)
On Experience and Imagination	375	(1)
Diane Wakoski
Childhood and Poetry	376	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Explication: Sound and Sense	377	(3)
God's Grandeur	377	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
``God's Grandeurn''	378	(2)
J.R. Watson
Evaluation: Poems Good and Bad	380	(4)
Thoughts on Capital Punishment	381	(1)
Rod Mckuen
Dear God, the Day Is Grey	382	(1)
Anne Halley
On ``Dear God, the Day Is Grey''	383	(1)
Laurence Perrine
Explorations: Judging the Poem	384	(1)
Can a Merry-Go-Round Horse Gallop in a Straight Line?	384	(1)
Daniel Ort
Writing about Literature: Writing the Essay (Preparing for Tests)	385	(3)
Other Voices/Other Visions Poems for Further Reading	388	(97)
Edward	388	(1)
Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens	389	(2)
Anonymous
Musee des Beaux Arts	391	(1)
W.H. Auden
The Turncoat	391	(1)
Imamu Amiri Baraka
Song	392	(1)
Aphra Behn
The Ball Poem	392	(1)
John Berryman
Dream Song 14	393	(1)
John Berryman
The Chimney Sweeper	393	(1)
William Blake
The Garden of Love	394	(1)
William Blake
The Lamb	394	(1)
William Blake
Snowfall in the Afternoon	395	(1)
Robert Bly
Women	395	(1)
Louise Bogan
The Soldier	396	(1)
Rupert Brooke
Fra Lippo Lippi	396	(8)
Robert Browning
She Walks in Beauty	404	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Kubla Kahn	404	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Problem	406	(1)
Michael Collier
Fathers	406	(1)
Robert Creeley
Four	407	(1)
Robert Creeley
All in green went my love riding	407	(1)
E.E. Cummings
it is so long since my heart has been with yours	408	(1)
E.E. Cummings
my sweet old etcetera	409	(1)
E.E. Cummings
I like to see it lap the Miles	409	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Flea	410	(1)
John Donne
The Good-Morrow	411	(1)
John Donne
Holy Sonnet 14	411	(1)
John Donne
Daystar	412	(1)
Rita Dove
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	412	(3)
T.S. Eliot
Constantly risking absurdity	415	(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Selective Service	416	(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Hug	417	(1)
Tess Gallagher
A Supermarket in California	418	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
Nikki-Rosa	419	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
The School Children	419	(1)
Louise Gluck
The Frog and the Golden Ball	420	(1)
Robert Graves
My Son, My Executioner	420	(1)
Donald Hall
How to Eat Alone	421	(1)
Daniel Halpern
Hap	422	(1)
Thomas Hardy
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''	422	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Forge	423	(1)
Seamus Heaney
The Collar	423	(1)
George Herbert
Easter Wings	424	(1)
George Herbert
Spring and Fall	424	(1)
Gerald Manley Hopkins
To an Athlete Dying Young	425	(1)
A.E. Housman
End	426	(1)
Langston Hughes
Hawk Roosting	426	(1)
Ted Hughes
Ars Poetica	427	(1)
Vicente Huidobro
Song: To Celia	427	(1)
Ben Jonson
Lullaby	428	(1)
June Jordan
Time and the Weather	428	(1)
Donald Justice
La Belle Dame sans Merci	428	(1)
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale	429	(2)
John Keats
When I Have Fears	431	(1)
John Keats
Blackberry Eating	432	(1)
Galway Kinnell
For William Carlos Williams	432	(1)
Galway Kinnell
He Sees through Stone	433	(1)
Ethridge Knight
The Retrieval System	433	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Poetry of Departures	434	(1)
Philip Larkin
Snake	435	(2)
D.H. Lawrence
The Ache of Marriage	437	(1)
Denise Levertov
Sister Outsider	437	(1)
Audre Lorde
Skunk Hour	438	(1)
Robert Lowell
When I Was a Child I Played with the Boys	439	(1)
Mary Mackey
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	440	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
The Definition of Love	441	(1)
Andrew Marvell
Advice to My Son	442	(1)
Peter Meinke
For the Anniversary of My Death	442	(1)
W.S. Merwin
How Soon Hath Time	443	(1)
John Milton
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	443	(1)
Marianne Moore
Lobsters	444	(1)
Howard Nemerov
The Promise	445	(1)
Sharon Olds
Anthem for Doomed Youth	445	(1)
Wilfred Owen
1932-	446	(1)
Linda Pastan
Posterity	446	(1)
Linda Pastan
Running on Empty	447	(1)
Robert Phillips
Daddy	447	(2)
Sylvia Plath
In a Station of the Metro	449	(1)
Ezra Pound
A Pact	449	(1)
Ezra Pound
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	450	(1)
Ezra Pound
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	450	(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ballad of Birmingham	451	(1)
Dudley Randall
Janet Waking	452	(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Bears	453	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Dissolve in Slow Motion	453	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Diving into the Wreck	454	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Miniver Cheevy	456	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory	457	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
I Knew a Woman	457	(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Meadow Mouse	458	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Grass	458	(1)
Carl Sandburg
The Truth the Dead Know	459	(1)
Anne Sexton
Two Hands	459	(1)
Anne Sexton
Full Fathom Five	460	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116	460	(1)
William Shakespeare
To a Skylark	461	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet 108	463	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
After Work	464	(1)
Gary Snyder
Hay for the Horses	464	(1)
Gary Snyder
Old Woman Nature	465	(1)
Gary Snyder
Lost Sister	465	(2)
Cathy Song
Anecdote of the Jar	467	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Domination of Black	467	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	468	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	468	(2)
Wallace Stevens
Eating Poetry	470	(1)
Mark Strand
Ulysses	470	(2)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	472	(1)
Dylan Thomas
The Old Words	473	(1)
David Wagoner
Go, Lovely Rose	473	(1)
Edmund Waller
Morning in Gainesville	474	(1)
Karen Whitehill
There Was a Child Went Forth	474	(2)
Walt Whitman
Boy at the Window	476	(1)
Richard Wilbur
The Writer	476	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Spring and All	477	(1)
William Carlos Williams
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	478	(1)
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	478	(1)
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper	478	(1)
William Wordsworth
They Flee from Me	479	(1)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
A Bedtime Story	480	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
Marriage Was a Foreign Country	481	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	482	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming	482	(1)
William Butler Yeats
To a Child Dancing in the Wind	483	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Humor	483	(2)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Biographies of Poets	485	(27)
Glossary of Literary Terms	512	(19)
Index of authors, Titles, and First Lines	531	(12)
Index of Literary and Rhetorical Terms	543