Written by two reknowned poets, this book is an attempt to provide the reader with a compact introduction to the study and appreciation of poetry. Kennedy/Gioia'sAn Introduction to Poetry,13 th edition continues to inspire readers with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry. Exclusive conversation between Dana Gioia and U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, offer readers an insiderrs"s look into the importance of literature and reading in the life of this poet. More than 50 new selections-from a wonderful range of poets including Kevin Young, Bettie Sellers, Mary Oliver, David Lehman, Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anne Stevenson, James Weldon Johnson, Alice Fulton, Jimmy Baca, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorine Niedecker, among others. For everyone that delights in the study of poetry.

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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