Introduction: Reading, Responding To, and Writing about Literature | |
Reading And Writing About Fiction | |
Fiction: An Overview | |
Stories for Study | |
The Things They Carried | |
Everyday Use | |
Taking Care | |
Plot and Structure: The Development and Organization of Stories Stories for Study | |
The Blue Hotel | |
A Worn Path | |
Blue Winds Dancing | |
Characters: The People in Fiction.Stories for Study | |
Paul's Case | |
Barn Burning | |
A Jury of Her Peers | |
Two Kinds | |
Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Narrator or Speaker.Stories for Study | |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
The Lottery | |
Miss Brill | |
How To Become A Writer. Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing | |
A & P | |
Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories | |
Stories for Study | |
The Story of an Hour | |
And Sarah Laughed | |
The Shawl | |
The Cask of Amontillado | |
Tone and Style: The Words That Convey Attitudes in Fiction | |
Stories for Study | |
Rape Fantasies | |
Soldier's Home | |
The Concert Stages of Europe | |
The Found Boat | |
First Confession | |
Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning | |
Stories for Study | |
The Fox and the Grapes | |
Young Goodman Brown | |
The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
The Fall of the House of Usher | |
The Chrysanthemums | |
The Thimble | |
Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction | |
Stories for Study | |
Araby | |
The Horse Dealer's Daughter | |
Home Soil | |
Stories for Additional Study | |
Snow | |
Neighbors | |
The Curse | |
The Yellow Wallpaper | |
The Loons | |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
Reading And Writing About Poetry | |
Meeting Poetry: An Overview | |
Schoolsville | |
Here a Pretty Baby Lies | |
Sir Patrick Spens | |
Poems for Study: | |
My Last Duchess | |
Because I Could Not Stop for Death | |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
The Man He Killed | |
Eagle Poem | |
Loveliest of Trees | |
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
Ogichidag | |
Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments | |
Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry | |
The Naked and the Nude | |
Poems for Study: | |
The Lamb | |
Green Grow the Rashes, O | |
E.e. cummings, next to of course god america i | |
Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God | |
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment | |
Sonnet on the Death of Richard West | |
Hello, Hello Henry | |
Ethics | |
Naming of Parts | |
Richard Cory | |
Dolor | |
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great | |
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | |
Eating Poetry | |
A Blessing | |
Imagery: The Poem's Link to the Senses | |
Cargoes | |
Anthem for Doomed Youth | |
The Fish | |
Poems for Study: | |
The Tyger | |
Sonnets from the Portugese, No 14 | |
The Pulley | |
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring | |
A Time Past | |
Photos of a Salt Mine | |
In a Station of the Metro | |
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun | |
It's Only Rock and Roll, but I Like It: The Fall of Saigon | |
Rhetorical Figures: A Source of Depth and Range in Poetry | |
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
Bright Star | |
Let Us Take the Road | |
Poems for Study: | |
Rain Towards Morning | |
A Red, Red Rose | |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
Harlem | |
To Autumn | |
Portrait of a Figure Near Water | |
Exit, Pursued by a Bear | |
A Work of Artifice | |
Metaphors | |
Looking at Each Other | |
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? | |
Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thoughts | |
Facing West from California's Shores | |
London, 1802 | |
I Find No Peace | |
Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry | |
The First-Rate Wife | |
Dulce et Decorum Est | |
The Workbox | |
Epigram from the French | |
Epigram, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness | |
Poems for Study: | |
London | |
The Author to Her Book | |
Homage to my hips | |
She being Brand/-new | |
Theme for English B | |
John while swimming in the ocean | |
The Planned Child | |
Late Movies with Skyler | |
From Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I | |
Poem | |
My Papa's Waltz | |
True Love | |
My Physics Teacher | |
Dimensions | |
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | |
Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry | |
Poems for Study: | |
We Real Cool | |
To Hear an Oriole Sing | |
The Sun Rising | |
Macavity: The Mystery Cat | |
Upon Julia's Voice | |
God's Grandeur | |
Let America Be America Again | |
A Theory of Prosody | |
The Bells | |
Miniver Cheevy | |
Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou May'st in Me Behold | |
Ode to the West Wind | |
From Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur | |
March for a One-Man Band | |
Daffodills (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) | |
Form: The Shape of the Poem | |
The Eagle | |
Anonymous, Spun in High, Dark Clouds | |
Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds | |
Reconciliation | |
Easter Wings | |
Poems For Study | |
Buffalo Bill's Defunct | |
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham | |
Desert Places | |
A Supermarket in California | |
Nikki-Rosa | |
Museum | |
Virtue | |
Mantle | |
Ode to a Nightingale | |
To His Coy Mistress | |
When I Consider How My Light is Spent | |
Ballad of Birmingham | |
A Christmas Carol | |
Ozymandias | |
Women | |
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | |
Reapers | |
The Shape of History | |
Poetics Against the Angel of Death | |
The Dance | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Symbolism and Allusion: Windows to a Wide Expanse of Meaning | |
Snow | |
Poems for Study: | |
Dover Beach | |
In Just- | |
The Canonization | |
The Geese | |
The Collar | |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
The Purse- Seine | |
La Belle Dame Sans Merci | |
Ode on a Grecian Urn. Carol Muske, Real Estate | |
Wild Geese | |
A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
Lines Written in Early Spring | |
The Second Coming | |
Myth: Systems of Symbolic Allusion In Poetry | |
Leda and the Swan | |
Poems Related to Homer's Odyssey | |
Poems for Study: | |
Siren Song | |
Odysseus | |
Penelope | |
Odyssey: 20 Years Later | |
Poems About the Story of Icarus | |
Poems for Study: | |
Flight 063 | |
Icarus | |
Waiting for Icarus | |
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
Poems Related to the Phoenix | |
Poems for Study: | |
Berceuse | |
The Phoenix Again | |
A Poem about Oedipus | |
Poems for Study: | |
Myth | |
Two Poetic Careers: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost | |
Poems by Emily Dickinson | |
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (Poem 341) | |
The Bustle in a House (Poem 1078) | |
Faith Is a Fine Invention (Poem 185) | |
The Heart Is the Capital of the Mind (Poem 1354) | |
I Cannot Live with You (Poem 640) | |
I Died for Beauty but Was Scarce (Poem 449) | |
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (Poem 465) | |
I Like to See It Lap the Miles (Poem 585) | |
I'm Nobody! Who Are You (Poem 288)? | |
I Never Felt at Home Below (Poem 413) | |
I Never Lost as Much But Twice (Poem 49) | |
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (Poem 214) | |
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (Poem 435) | |
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (Poem 1732) | |
My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums (Poem 1227) | |
One Need Not Be a Chamber To Be Haunted (Poem 670) | |
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (Poem 216) | |
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church (Poem 324) | |
The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Poem 303) | |
Success Is Counted Sweetest (Poem 67) | |
There's a Certain Slant of Light (Poem 258) | |
This World Is Not Conclusion (Poem 501) | |
Wild Nights Wild Nights! (Poem 249) | |
Poems by Robert Frost: A Line-Storm Song (Poem 1913) | |
Mending Wall (Poem 1914) | |
Birches (Poem 1915) | |
The Road Not Taken (Poem 1915) | |
'Out, Out ' (Poem 1916) | |
The Oven Bird (Poem 1916) | |
Fire and Ice (Poem 1920) | |
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Poem 1923) | |
Misgiving (1923) | |
Acquainted with the Night (Poem 1928) | |
Design (Poem 1936) | |
A Considerable Speck (Poem 1942) | |
Poems for Additional Study | |
My Arkansas | |
Anonymous, Healing Prayer from the Beautyway Chant | |
Variation on the Word Sleep | |
The Unknown Citizen | |
Ka 'Ba | |
Things We Dreamt We Died For | |
Can. Lit | |
A Black Man Talks of Reaping | |
To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
In Memory of My Father: Australia | |
Primer for Blacks | |
Sonnetts from the Portuguese: No. 43: How Do I Love Thee? | |
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | |
The Destruction of Sennacherib | |
This morning. the poet | |
The killers that run.. | |
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind | |
Yet Do I Marvel | |
If there are any heavens | |
The Lifeguard | |
Holy Sonet 6: This Is My Play's Last Scene | |
Holy Sonet 7: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners | |
Holy Sonet 10: Death Be Not Proud | |
A Hynm to God the Father | |
Song. (Go, And Catch a Falling Star | |
Since There's No Help | |
Sympathy | |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
Because One Is Always Forgotten | |
Woman | |
Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle | |
Snapshot of Hué | |
Hamod Leaves | |
She's Free! | |
Called | |
Spring Rain | |
Those Winter Sundays | |
The Otter | |
The Hair: Jacob Korman's Story | |
Advice to Young Ladies | |
Pied Beauty | |
Negro | |
The Answer | |
Haiku | |
Woodchucks | |
Rhine Boat Trip | |
A Final Thing | |
In Computers | |
Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem | |
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | |
Patterns | |
Dark Pines under Water | |
The White City | |
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | |
Very Like a Whale | |
Wahbegan | |
Poem | |
Ghosts | |
A Story of How a Wall Stands | |
Résumé | |
Marks | |
The Secretary Chant | |
Last Words. Mirror | |
Annabel Lee | |
Archaeology | |
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter | |
Diving Into the Wreck | |
The Waking | |
Right on: white america | |
Chicago | |
Dreamers | |
I Have a Rendezvous with Death | |
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun | |
Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes | |
Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, the Center of My Sinful Earth | |
Auto Wreck | |
Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer | |
Bluejays | |
Not Waving But Drowning | |
These Trees Stand | |
Lost Sister | |
Oranges | |
Traveling Through the Dark | |
Burying an Animal on the Way to New York | |
The Emperor of Ice-Cream | |
The Blue Booby | |
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London | |
Perfection Wasted | |
The Boxes | |
Revolutionary Petunias | |
Go, Lovely Rose | |
Heart of Autumn | |
Song of Napalm | |
On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
Walt Whitman, Full of Life Now. Beat! Beat! Drums! Dirge for Two Veterans | |
The Sirens | |
The Red Wheelbarrow | |
Sailing to Byzantium | |
The Day Zimmer Lost Religion | |
Reading And Writing About Drama | |
The Dramatic Vision: An Overview | |
Plays For Study: | |
Trifles | |
Mulatto | |
Tea Party | |
Before Breakfast | |
The Tragic Vision: Affirmation Through Loss | |
Sophocles | |
Oedipus the King | |
Hamlet | |
The Comic Vision: Restoring the Balance | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
The Bear | |
Am I Blue | |
Plays for Additional Study | |
A Dollhouse | |
Death of a Salesman | |
The Glass Menagerie | |
Special Writing Topics About Literature | |
Writing and Documenting the Research Essay | |
Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature | |
Taking Examinations on Literature | |
Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together | |
Appendix: Brief Biographies of the Poets in Part III | |
Glossary of Literary Terms | |
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines | |
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