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X. J. Kennedy , after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (“Actually, I was pretty eighth class”). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.
Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. (“Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!”) After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2001); and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry’s place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College.
He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.
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1. Reading a Poem
Poetry or Verse
Reading a Poem
Paraphrase
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Lyric Poetry
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Narrative Poetry
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence
Robert Frost, “Out, Out–”
Dramatic Poetry
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Didactic Poetry
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Adrienne Rich, Recalling “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Thinking About Paraphrase
William Stafford, Ask Me
William Stafford, A Paraphrase of “Ask Me”
Checklist: Writing a Paraphrase
Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
2. Listening to a Voice
Tone
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter
Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles
** Kevin Young, Doo Wop
Weldon Kees, For My Daughter
The Person in the Poem
Natasha Trethewey, White Lies
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting
Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry
James Stephens, A Glass of Beer
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Irony
Robert Creeley, Oh No
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage
** Rod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior
Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig
** Dorothy Parker, Comment
** Bob Hicok, Making It In Poetry
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
For Review and Further Study
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
** Erich Fried, The Measures Taken
William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Wilfred Owen, War Poetry
Thinking About Tone
Checklist: Writing about Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone
Student Paper, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
3. Words
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say
Diction
Marianne Moore, Silence
Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down!
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You
The Value of a Dictionary
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
** Kay Ryan, Chemise
J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Carl Sandburg, Grass
** Dan Anderson, Dog Haiku
Word Choice and Word Order
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia’s Clothes
** Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne
Kay Ryan, Blandeur
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts
For Review and Further Study
E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town
Billy Collins, The Names
** Charles Bukowski, Dostoevsky
Anonymous, Carnation Milk
Gina Valdés, English con Salsa
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates “Jabberwocky”
Thinking About Diction
Checklist: Writing About diction
Writing Assignment on Word Choice
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
4. Saying and Suggesting
Denotation and Connotation
John Masefield, Cargoes
William Blake, London
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
Gwendolyn Brooks, Southeast Corner
Timothy Steele, Epitaph
E. E. Cummings, next to of course god america i
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
** Diane Thiel, The Minefield
** Ron Rash, The Day the Gates Closed
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Richard Wilbur, Concerning “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”
Thinking About Denotation and Connotation
Checklist: writing about What a Poem SAYS AND Suggests
Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
5. Imagery
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Taniguchi Buson, The Piercing Chill I Feel
Imagery
T. S. Eliot, The Winter Evening Settles Down
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
** Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther
Charles Simic, Fork
Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
About Haiku
Arakida Moritake, The falling flower
Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak
Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool
Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell
** Taniguchi Buson, Moonrise on mudflats
Kobayashi Issa, Only One Guy
Kobayashi Issa, Cricket
Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps
** Suiko Matsushita, Cosmos in Bloom
** Neiji Ozawa, The War–This Year
Hakuro Wada, Even the Croaking of Frogs
Contemporary Haiku
Etheridge Knightn Making jazz swing in
Lee Gurga, Visitor’s Room
Penny Harter, broken bowl
Jennifer Brutschy, Born Again
John Ridland, The Lazy Man’s Haiku
Garry Gay, Hole in the Ozone
For Review and Further Study
John Keats, Bright star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
Walt Whitman, The Runner
T. E. Hulme, Image
William Carlos Williams, El Hombre
Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
** Paul Goodman, Birthday Cake
Louise Glück, Mock Orange
Billy Collins, Embrace
** Kevin Prufer, Pause, Pause
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Ezra Pound, The Image
Thinking About Imagery
Checklist: Writing about Imagery
Writing Assignment on Imagery
Student Paper, FADED BEAUTY: Elizabeth Bishop’s Use of Imagery in “The Fish”
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
6. Figures of Speech
Why Speak Figuratively?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Metaphor and Simile
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
N. Scott Momaday, Simile
Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low — in my Regard
** Jill Alexander Essbaum, The Heart
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Other Figures of Speech
James Stephens, The Wind
Margaret Atwood, You fit into me
George Herbert, The Pulley
Dana Gioia, Money
Charles Simic, My Shoes
** Carl Sandburg, Fog
For Review and Further Study
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent
Jane Kenyon, The Suitor
Robert Frost, The Secret Sits
A. R. Ammons, Coward
Kay Ryan, Turtle
** Anne Stevenson, The Demolition
Robinson Jeffers, Hands
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Robert Frost, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
Thinking About Metaphors
Checklist: Writing About Metaphors
Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
7. Song
Singing and Saying
Ben Jonson, To Celia
** James Weldon Johnson, Since You Went Away
William Shakespeare, O mistress mine
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Paul Simon, Richard Cory
Ballads
Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Blues
Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams, Jailhouse Blues
W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
** Kevin Young, Late Blues
Rap
Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper
For Review and Further Study
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby
Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
Aimee Mann, Deathly
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Paul McCartney, Creating “Eleanor Rigby”
Thinking About Poetry and Song
Checklist: Writing About Song Lyrics
Writing Assignment on Song Lyrics
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
8. Sound
Sound as Meaning
Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?
John Updike, Recital
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Emanuel di Pasquale, Rain
Aphra Behn, When maidens are young
Alliteration and Assonance
A. E. Housman, Eight O’Clock
James Joyce, All day I hear
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls
Rime
William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus
Ogden Nash, The Panther
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur
** William Jay Smith, A Note on the Vanity Dresser
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud
Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane
William Shakespeare, Full fathom five thy father lies
T. S. Eliot, Virginia
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
T. S. Eliot, The Music of Poetry
Thinking About a Poem's Sound
Checklist: Writing About a Poem’s Sound
Writing Assignment on Sound
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
9. Rhythm
Stresses and Pauses
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
Ben Jonson, Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time With My Salt Tears
Dorothy Parker, Résumé
Meter
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme
Jacqueline Osherow, Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
William Carlos Williams, Smell!
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
David Mason, Song of the Powers
Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Gwendolyn Brooks, Hearing “We Real Cool”
Thinking About Rhythm
Checklist: Scanning a Poem
Writing Assignment on Rhythm
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
10. Closed Form
Formal Patterns
John Keats, This living hand, now warm and capable
Robert Graves, Counting the Beats
John Donne, Song (“Go and Catch a Falling Star”)
Phillis Levin, Brief Bio
The Sonnet
William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
Michael Drayton, Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
** William Meredith, The Illiterate
Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You
** Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying
A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non
R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet
The Epigram
Alexander Pope, Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
Sir John Harrington, Of Treason
Robert Herrick, Moderation
William Blake, Her Whole Life Is An Epigram
E. E. Cummings, a politician
Langston Hughes, Prayer
J. V. Cunningham, This Humanist
John Frederick Nims, Contemplation
Brad Leithauser, A Venus Flytrap
Dick Davis, Fatherhood
Anonymous, Epitaph of a Dentist
Hilaire Belloc, Fatigue
Wendy Cope, Variation on Belloc’s “Fatigue”
Other Forms
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Robert Bridges, Triolet
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
A. E. Stallings, On Form and Artifice
Thinking About a Sonnet
Checklist: Writing About a Sonnet
Writing Assignment on a Sonnet
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
11. Open Form
Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill ’s
W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death
William Carlos Williams, The Dance
Stephen Crane, The Heart
Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Ezra Pound, Salutation
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Prose Poetry
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel
Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness
Visual Poetry
George Herbert, Easter Wings
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow
** Richard Kostelanetz, Simultaneous Translations
Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse
E. E. Cummings, in Just-
** A. E. Stallings, First Love: A Quiz
** David Lehman, Radio
Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red
** Alice Fulton, What I Like
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Walt Whitman, The Poetry of the Future
Thinking About Free Verse
Checklist: Writing about free verse
Writing Assignment on Open Form
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
12. Symbol
T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript
Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork
Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones
Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed
George Herbert, The World
Edwin Markham, Outwitted
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Christina Rossetti, Uphill
For Review and Further Study
William Carlos Williams, The Term
Ted Kooser, Carrie
** Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover
** Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
William Butler Yeats, Poetic Symbols
Thinking About Symbols
Checklist: Writing About Symbols
Writing Assignment on Symbolism
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
13. Myth and Narrative
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can.
William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us
H. D., Helen
** Constantine Cavafy, IThaca
Archetype
Louise Bogan, Medusa
John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci
Personal Myth
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Gregory Orr, Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm
Myth and Popular Culture
Charles Martin, Taken Up
Andrea Hollander Budy, Snow White
Anne Sexton, Cinderella
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Anne Sexton, Transforming Fairy Tales
Thinking About Myth
Checklist: Writing About Myth
Writing Assignment on Myth
Student Paper, The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.’s “Helen”
More Topics for Writing
Terms for Review
14. Poetry and Personal Identity
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual/Bilingüe
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
Claude McKay, America
Samuel Menashe, The Shrine Whose Shape I Am
Francisco X. Alarcón, The X in My Name
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quiñceañera
** Sherman Alexie, The Powwow at the End of the World
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
Gender
Anne Stevenson, Sous-Entendu
** Bettie Sellers, In the Counselor's Waiting room
Donald Justice, Men at Forty
Adrienne Rich, Women
For Review and Further Study
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to Love America
Philip Larkin, Aubade
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Rhina Espaillat, Being a Bilingual Writer
Thinking About Poetry of Personal Identity
Checklist: Writing About Voice and Personal Identity
Writing Assignment on Personal Identity
More Topics for Writing
15. Translation
Is Poetic Translation Possible?
World Poetry
Li Po, Moon-Beneath Alone Drink (literal translation)
Translated by Arthur Waley, Drinking Alone by Moonlight
Comparing Translations
Horace, “Carpe Diem” Ode (Latin text)
Horace, Seize the Day (literal translation)
Translated by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Horace to Leuconoe
Translated by James Michie, Don’t Ask
Translated by A. E. Stallings, A New Year’s Toast
Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyati
** Translated by Edward FitzGerald, XII: A Book of Verses Underneath the Bough
** Translated by Edward FitzGerald, VII: Come, Fill the Cup
** Translated by Edward FitzGerald, XIII: Some for the Glories of this World
** Translated by Edward FitzGerald, XXIV: Ah, Make the Most of What We Yet May Spend
** Translated by Edward FitzGerald, LXXI: The Moving Finger writes
** Translated by Edward FitzGerald, XCIX: Ah Love! Could You and I with Him Conspire
Parody
Anonymous, We four lads from Liverpool are
Hugh Kingsmill, What, still alive at twenty-two?
** Stanley J. Sharpless, How Do I Hate You? Let Me Count the Ways
Gene Fehler, If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent
Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Arthur Waley, The Method of Translation
Thinking About a Parody
Checklist: Writing About a Parody
Writing Assignment on Parody
More Topics for Writing
16. Poetry in Spanish: Literature of Latin America
Sor Juana, Presente en que el Cariño Hace Regalo la Llaneza
Translated by Diane Thiel, A Simple Gift Made Rich by Affection
Pablo Neruda, Muchos Somos
Translated by Alastair Reid, We Are Many
Jorge Luis Borges, Amorosa Anticipación
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Anticipation of Love
Octavio Paz, Con los ojos cerrados
Translated by Eliot Weinberger, With Eyes Closed
Surrealism in Latin American Poetry
Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas
César Vallejo, La cólera que quiebra al hombre en niños
Translated by Thomas Merton, Anger
Contemporary Mexican Poetry
José Emilio Pacheco, Alta Traición
Translated by Alastair Reid, High Treason
Tedi López Mills, Convalecencia
Translated by Cheryl Clark, Convalescence
** Francisco Segovia, Cada árbol en Su Sombra
Translated by Don Share with César Perez, Every Tree in Its Shadow
Writers on Translating
Alastair Reid, Translating Neruda
Writing Assignment on Spanish Poetry
More Topics for Writing
17. Recognizing Excellence
Anonymous, O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Emily Dickinson, A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink
Rod McKuen, Thoughts on Capital Punishment
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
** Dylan Thomas, In My Craft or Sullen Art
Recognizing Excellence
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
Arthur Guiterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Robert Hayden, The Whipping
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Writing Effectively
Writers on Writing
Edgar Allan Poe, A Long Poem Does Not Exist
Thinking About an Evaluation
Checklist: Writing an Evaluation
Writing Assignment on Evaluating a Poem
More Topics for Writing
18. What Is Poetry?
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica
Dante, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, J. V. Cunningham, **José Garcia Villa, **Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Bishop, **Joy Harjo, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, William Stafford, **Charles Simi , Some Definitions of Poetry —
Ha Jin, Missed Time
19. Two Critical Casebooks
Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest
Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
** There’s a certain Slant of light
I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
The Soul selects her own Society
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
** Much Madness is divinest Sense
This is my letter to the World
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died
I started Early — Took my Dog
Because I could not stop for Death
The Bustle in a House
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson
Recognizing Poetry
Self-Description
Critics on Emily Dickinson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Meeting Emily Dickinson
Thomas H. Johnson, The Discovery of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts
Richard Wilbur, The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson
Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Dickinson and Death (A Reading of “Because I could not stop for Death”)
Judith Farr, A Reading of “My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun”
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
** My People
Mother to Son
Dream Variations
I, Too
The Weary Blues
Song for a Dark Girl
Prayer
Ballad of the Landlord
End
Theme for English B
Subway Rush Hour
Harlem [Dream Deferred]
** Homecoming
As Befits a Man
Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
The Harlem Renaissance
Critics on Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad, Hughes as an Experimentalist
Rita Dove and Marilyn Nelson, Langston Hughes and Harlem
Darryl Pinckney, Black Identity in Langston Hughes
Peter Townsend, Langston Hughes and Jazz
Onwuchekwa Jemie, A Reading of “Dream Deferred”
Topics for Writing About Emily Dickinson
Topics for Writing About Langston Hughes
20. Critical Casebook: T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
T. S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Publishing “Prufrock”
The Reviewers on Prufrock
Unsigned, Review from Times Literary Supplement
Unsigned, Review from Literary World
Unsigned, Review from New Statesman
Conrad Aiken, From “Divers Realists,” The Dial
Babette Deutsch, from “Another Impressionist,” The New Republic
Marianne Moore, From “A Note on T. S. Eliot’s Book,” Poetry
May Sinclair, From “Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism,” The Little Review
T. S. Eliot on Writing
Poetry and Emotion
The Objective Correlative
The Difficulty of Poetry
Critics on “Prufrock”
Denis Donoghue, One of the Irrefutable Poets
Christopher Ricks, What’s in a Name?
Philip R. Headings, The Pronouns in the Poem: “One,” “You,” and “I”
Maud Ellmann, Will There Be Time?
Burton Raffel, “Indeterminacy” in Eliot’s Poetry
John Berryman, Prufrock’s Dilemma
M. L. Rosenthal, Adolescents Singing
Topics for Writing
21. Poems for Further Reading
Anonymous, Lord Randall
Anonymous, The Three Ravens
Anonymous, Last Words of the Prophet
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
John Ashbery, At North Farm
Margaret Atwood, Siren Song
W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening
W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
** Jimmy Baca, Spliced Wire
Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station
William Blake, The Tyger
William Blake, The Sick Rose
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother
** Gwendolyn Brooks, The Rites for Cousin Vit
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Geoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty
John Ciardi, Most Like an Arch This Marriage
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Billy Collins, Care and Feeding
Hart Crane, My Grandmother’s Love Letters
E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
Marisa de los Santos, Perfect Dress
John Donne, Death be not proud
John Donne, The Flea
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
** Rita Dove, Daystar
John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi
Robert Frost, Birches
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Donald Hall, Names of Horses
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy, Hap
Seamus Heaney, Digging
** Anthony Hecht, The Vow
George Herbert, Love
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
** Tony Hoagland, Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall
Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Robinson Jeffers, To the Stone-cutters
Ben Jonson, On My First Son
Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be
John Keats, To Autumn
Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse
Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad
Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures
D. H. Lawrence, Piano
Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, To Li Po
Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo
John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent
Marianne Moore, Poetry
Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman
Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air
** Lorine Niedecker, Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves
Sharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Linda Pastan, Ethics
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream within a Dream
Alexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Dudley Randall, A Different Image
John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane
William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded monuments
William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold
William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes are nothing likethe sun
** Charles Simic, The Butcher Shop
Christopher Smart, For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry
Cathy Song, Stamp Collecting
William Stafford, The Farm on the Great Plains
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player
Derek Walcott, The Virgins
Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose
Walt Whitman, from Song of the Open Road
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
Richard Wilbur, The Writer
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
William Carlos Williams, To Waken an Old Lady
William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
James Wright, A Blessing
James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Mary Sidney Wroth, In this strange labyrinth
Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me that sometime did me sekë
William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
William Butler Yeats, The Magi
William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old
22. Writing about Literature
Read Actively
Robert Frost, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
Plan Your Essay
Discover Your Ideas
Sample Student Prewriting Exercises
Developing a Literary Argument
Writing a Rough Draft
Sample Student Paper (Rough Draft)
Revise Your Draft
Some Final Advice on Rewriting
Document Sources to Avoid Plagiarism
The Form of Your Finished Paper
Spell-Check and Grammar Check Programs
23. Writing about a Poem
Read Actively
Think About the Poem
Discover Your Ideas
Write a Rough Draft
Common Approaches to Writing about Poetry
How to Quote a Poem
Topics for Writing
Robert Frost, IN WHITE
24. Writing a Research Paper
Browse the Research
Choose a Topic
Begin Your Research
Evaluate Sources
Organize Your Research
Refine Your Thesis
Organize Your Paper
Write and Revise
Maintain Academic Integrity
Acknowledge All Sources
Documenting Sources Using MLA Style
Reference Guide for Citation
25. Critical Approaches to Literature
Formalist Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Historical Criticism
Psychological Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Gender Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Deconstructionist Criticism
Cultural Studies
Terms for Review
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index of Major Themes
Index of First Lines of Poetry
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of Literary Terms
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