Literature and Society : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction

by Annas, Pamela J.; Rosen, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780131534575
• ISBN10: 0131534572
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

"The Editorrs"s purpose and approach seems to be similar to my goals in finding a text for an introductory literature classroom: having apparatus but not weaving it through the whole text, including depth and diversity of authors, using themes to guide students into the wonders of literature while making it easier to understand by (thematic) context. They also emphasize the connectedness between literature and culture, giving the text social and political dimensions that I valuehellip;" --ElyceRaeHelford, MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity This thematic anthology features comprehensive writing coverage that highlights both the writing process and how to write about fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. It introduces and explains literature with reading selections centered on five enduring themesGrowing Up and Growing Older, Women and Men, Money and Work, Peace and War, and Varieties of Protest. Annas/Rosen Literature and Society Website ( www.prenhall.com/annas ) This FREE Website includes: ~Chapter objectives ~Interactive exercises (Multiple choice and essay questions) ~Dynamic Web Links about important literary figures The Art of Literature CD: This collection of video, audio and interactive activities brings literature to life. This CD also gives you access to Writerrs"s One Key. -To order this text packaged FREE with The Art of Literature CD, use ISBN 0-13-153435-1. Package certain Penguin titles FREE and others at a substantial discount. Learn more at www.prenhall.com/english .

Table of Contents

Contents by Genre	xix
Preface	xxvii
LITERATURE AND THE WRITING PROCESS	1	(46)
Beginning, Discovering, Inventing, Planning, Drafting	1	(6)
Taking Notes	2	(1)
Exploratory Writing	2	(1)
Inventing an Approach	3	(2)
Outlining	5	(1)
Drafting	5	(2)
Surviving the Writing Process	7	(2)
Revising and Editing	9	(5)
The Whole Paper	9	(1)
Paragraphs	10	(1)
Beginnings and Endings	11	(2)
Sentences and Words	13	(1)
Revising and Editing: An Example	14	(3)
Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Exam	17	(2)
Kinds of Writing	19	(4)
Freewriting	19	(1)
Explication	20	(1)
Response	20	(1)
Analysis	20	(1)
Comparison/Contrast	21	(1)
Review	21	(1)
Research Paper	22	(1)
Critical Reading Journal	22	(1)
Passages from Student Critical Reading Journals	23	(5)
Sample Explication Paper: Original and Revision	28	(8)
Documentation and Manuscript Form	36	(11)
Academic Honesty	36	(1)
Citation of Sources	37	(1)
Titles	37	(1)
Quotations	37	(2)
Documentation	39	(1)
The Works Cited Approach	40	(1)
Electronic Resources	41	(1)
Citing in Your Paper	42	(1)
The Endnote/Footnote Approach	43	(1)
Explanatory Footnotes	44	(2)
Final Manuscript Preparation	46	(1)
GROWING UP/GROWING OLDER	47	(256)
Introduction	48	(4)
Fiction	52	(99)
from Brave New World	52	(15)
Aldous Huxley
The Director leads a tour through the Hatchery, where elaborate machinery makes babies in several different models, and through the Conditioning Rooms, where hypnopaedia and shock treatment teach infants to like and dislike the right things.
Girl	67	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
A Caribbean girl gets more advice than she wants from a very insistent mother.
from The Bluest Eye	69	(3)
Toni Morrison
Why does Claudia destroy white baby dolls?
The Family of Little Feet	72	(3)
Sandra Cisneros
Three pairs of high heels fall into the lives of some girls on the edge of adolescence and create an afternoon of scary magic.
Bloodchild	75	(18)
Octavia Butler
A boy comes of age in an unusual family on a different planet.
Sonny's Blues	93	(24)
James Baldwin
A teacher in Harlem initially views his younger brother as just another kid in trouble with drugs, but comes to love and understand him better when he hears him play piano in a nightclub.
Young Goodman Brown	117	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A young man has an encounter with the devil and his life is never the same.
Jesus Christ's Half Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation	128	(12)
Sherman Alexie
A Mistaken Charity	140	(11)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Two women are put in an Old Ladies' Home with surprising results.
Poetry	151	(56)
We Two Boys Together Clinging	151	(1)
Walt Whitman
From the House of Yemanja	152	(2)
Audre Lorde
Those Winter Sundays	154	(2)
Robert Hayden
The Colossus	156	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Among Children	158	(3)
Philip Levine
The Mother	161	(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Language of the Brag	164	(2)
Sharon Olds
Ex-Basketball Player	166	(2)
John Updike
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	168	(5)
T. S. Eliot
Sailing to Byzantium	173	(2)
William Butler Yeats
That time of year thou mayst in me behold	175	(1)
William Shakespeare
To a Poor Old Woman	176	(2)
William Carlos Williams
They did not build wings for them	178	(3)
Irena Klepfisz
Undertaker	181	(4)
Patricia Smith
The Bean Eaters	185	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Remember	186	(3)
Joy Harjo
When I Have Fears	189	(1)
John Keats
A child said What is the grass? from Leaves of Grass	189	(2)
Walt Whitman
Spring and Fall	191	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Grown-up	191	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed	192	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
in Just	192	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Lineage	193	(1)
Margaret Walker
My Papa's Waltz	193	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night	194	(1)
Dylan Thomas
We Real Cool	195	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	195	(1)
James Wright
Discovering Country	196	(1)
Patricia Smith
Transition	197	(2)
Toi Derricotte
Rainy Dawn	199	(1)
Joy Harjo
Not Knowing, in Aztlan	200	(1)
Tino Villanueva
Leaves	200	(2)
Lloyd Schwartz
Immigrants	202	(1)
Pat Mora
My Father's Song	202	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz
diagnosis (4-10-86)	203	(1)
Ron Schreiber
June 25	204	(2)
Essex Hemphill
I Pass the Arctic Circle	206	(1)
Olav H. Hauge
A Son Seeing His Mother Seeing Death	206	(1)
Ory Bernstein
Drama	207	(58)
Krapp's Last Tape	207	(7)
Samuel Beckett
An old man listens to and talks back at tape recordings about his life that he made when he was younger.
And the Soul Shall Dance	214	(51)
Wakako Yamauchi
A preadolescent Japanese-American girl tries to understand the older women in her life and their memories of Japan.
Nonfiction	265	(36)
No Name Woman	265	(10)
Maxine Hong Kingston
A Chinese-American girl tries to cope with a terrifying story her mother tells her about what it means to be a woman.
from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name	275	(8)
Audre Lorde
An American girl reaches puberty and discovers something about her West Indian heritage.
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy	283	(8)
Tommy Avicolli Mecca
What was it like, at school and at home, growing up gay?
Gun Crazy	291	(5)
Dorothy Allison
In the rural South, where learning to shoot is a badge of adult power, one girl finally gets access to a gun.
Three Generations of Native American Women's Birth Experience	296	(5)
Joy Harjo
Poet Joy Harjo contrasts the traditional and the technological in her own, her mother's, and her daughter's experiences giving birth.
Growing Up and Growing Older: Paper Topics	301	(2)
WOMEN AND MEN	303	(280)
Introduction	304	(3)
Fiction	307	(73)
The Yellow Wallpaper	307	(13)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Told by her doctor to rest, a woman develops a strange relationship with the wallpaper in her room.
Hills Like White Elephants	320	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
A couple in a train station in Spain have an oblique but very important conversation.
Signals	324	(7)
Raymond Carver
A couple in an upscale restaurant somewhere in America have an oblique but very important conversation.
Seventeen Syllables	331	(11)
Hisaye Yamamoto
A teen-age girl learns more than she wants to about her parents' marriage.
Ines in the Kitchen	342	(4)
Cristina Garcia
Ines is thinking about her coming child and making a lovely dinner for her husband. Why is she feeling trapped?
A & P	346	(6)
John Updike
Three young women in bathing suits stroll into the supermarket and checkout clerk Sammy's mind goes into overdrive.
Boys at the Rodeo	352	(6)
Judy Grahn
Six women are mistaken for boys and have an unusual day at the rodeo.
The Story of an Hour	358	(3)
Kate Chopin
A married woman receives some shocking news---twice.
Fern	361	(5)
Jean Toomer
Men find Fern distant, mysterious, and self-contained.
A Man of Integrity	366	(14)
Tahira Naqvi
A married doctor in Pakistan, a man of integrity, starts receiving letters from an unknown female admirer. Will this escalate?
Poetry	380	(56)
The Flea	380	(1)
John Donne
The Garden of Love	381	(2)
William Blake
An Ancient Gesture	383	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gloire de Dijon	385	(2)
D. H. Lawrence
One Art	387	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Her Kind	389	(1)
Anne Sexton
Beautiful Black Women	390	(2)
Amiri Baraka
Buick	392	(2)
Karl Shapiro
The Lovepet	394	(3)
Ted Hughes
Cinderella	397	(2)
Olga Broumas
Jacklight	399	(2)
Louise Erdrich
I Stop Writing the Poem	401	(2)
Tess Gallagher
Crazy Courage	403	(2)
Alma Luz Villanueva
Song: Down-Hearted Blues	405	(3)
Alberta Hunter
Lovie Austin
Song: Keep Ya Head Up	408	(3)
Tupac Shakur
The Song of Solomon	411	(1)
Anonymous
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	412	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
When my love swears that she is made of truth	413	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Sun Rising	414	(1)
John Donne
The Canonization	415	(1)
John Donne
To His Coy Mistress	416	(2)
Andrew Marvell
To a Stranger	418	(1)
Walt Whitman
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	418	(1)
Walt Whitman
My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun	419	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Decade	420	(1)
Amy Lowell
The Harlem Dancer	420	(1)
Claude McKay
Leda and the Swan	421	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Women	421	(1)
Louise Bogan
Song: How Much Can I Stand?	422	(1)
Gladys Bentley
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink	423	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
You Held the Black Face	424	(1)
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Mellow	425	(1)
Langston Hughes
The woman in the ordinary	425	(1)
Marge Piercy
Waiting for Icarus	426	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff	426	(2)
Ntozake Shange
Poem XI from Twenty-one Love Poems	428	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Six Years	429	(1)
Alice Bloch
Several Things	430	(2)
Martha Collins
Claims	432	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
This House I Cannot Leave	433	(1)
Barbara Kingsolver
Transsexual Cloud	433	(1)
Stefanie Marlis
Every Day You Play	434	(2)
Pablo Neruda
Drama	436	(129)
Riders to the Sea	436	(14)
John M. Synge
When men go to the sea, what is a mother to do?
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice	450	(101)
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare dramatizes love, jealousy, murder, and betrayals imagined and real amid a clash of cultures.
Trifles	551	(14)
Susan Glaspell
A farmer has died with a rope around his neck, and two women in a farmhouse kitchen see clues that the male sheriff and county attorney miss.
Nonfiction	565	(14)
Shakespeare's Sister	565	(3)
Virginia Woolf
If Shakespeare had had a sister who shared his genius, what would have been her fate?
Ain't I a Woman?	568	(1)
Sojourner Truth
Truth argues eloquently for the rights of women.
I Want a Wife	569	(3)
Judy Brady
Brady satirizes traditional gender roles by explaining why she too would like to have a wife.
Huck Finn, Dan Quayle, and the Value of Acceptance	572	(7)
Richard Rodriguez
A gay man, the son of immigrants, reflects on the meaning of ``family values.''
Women and Men: Paper Topics	579	(4)
MONEY AND WORK	583	(358)
Introduction	584	(4)
Fiction	588	(79)
I Stand Here Ironing	588	(7)
Tillie Olsen
A mother thinks back on her years raising a daughter under harsh economic conditions.
from The Street	595	(14)
Ann Petry
Single mother Lutie Johnson looks at an apartment in a run down building with a very scary super.
Spotted Horses	609	(15)
William Faulkner
Horse trading can be a tricky business, as the inhabitants of one southern community discover.
Assembly Line	624	(10)
B. Traven
On vacation in Mexico, E.L. Winthrop of New York discovers a poor Indian peasant who weaves magnificent baskets, and he sees an opportunity to make himself a pile of money.
from Christ in Concrete	634	(4)
Pietro di Donato
A thirteen-year-old bricklayer tells of the excitement and terror of working construction on tall buildings.
from Waiting for Nothing	638	(9)
Tom Kromer
During the worst years of the Great Depression, a chronically unemployed man hunts for ``three hots and a flop.''
The Lesson	647	(7)
Toni Cade Bambara
College-educated Miss Moore takes a group of ghetto kids to an expensive toy store to teach them a lesson about the society they live in.
Everyday Use	654	(8)
Alice Walker
A mother has to decide which of two very different daughters should get the family quilts.
Hypothetical Quandary	662	(5)
Harvey Pekar
Comic book artist Pekar ponders his working class life and his artistic ambitions on the way to the bakery.
Poetry	667	(63)
A Worker Reads History	667	(2)
Bertolt Brecht
A Description of the Morning	669	(1)
Jonathan Swift
Dolor	670	(2)
Theodore Roethke
Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80	672	(2)
Judy Grahn
Chicago	674	(2)
Carl Sandburg
So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans	676	(3)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Homecoming	679	(3)
Julia Alvarez
Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat	682	(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ballad of the Landlord	685	(3)
Langston Hughes
My Mother, Who Came From China, Where She Never Saw Snow	688	(2)
Laureen Mar
You Can Have It	690	(2)
Philip Levine
The Triangle Fire	692	(7)
Mary Fell
The Chimney Sweeper	699	(1)
William Blake
The World Is Too Much With Us	700	(1)
William Wordsworth
Song: We raise de wheat	700	(1)
Anonymous
The Ruined Maid	701	(1)
Thomas Hardy
West London	702	(1)
Matthew Arnold
The Young Housewife	702	(1)
William Carlos Williams
The golf links lie so near the mill	703	(1)
Sarah Cleghorn
Tired	703	(1)
Fenton Johnson
For a Lady I Know	704	(1)
Countee Cullen
Song: Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine	704	(2)
Anonymous
Easy Papa Johnson (Roosevelt Sykes), Song: Cotton Seed Blues	706	(1)
City-Life	706	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Song of the Invigorating Effect of Money	707	(1)
Bertolt Brecht
Come, live with me and be my love	708	(1)
C. Day Lewis
Two Tramps in Mud Time	709	(2)
Robert Frost
Boy with His Hair Cut Short	711	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Song: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)	711	(1)
Woody Guthrie
About Your Hands and Lies	712	(2)
Nazim Hikmet
The Miners	714	(1)
Mafika Mbuli
This Is the Story of the Day in the Life of a Woman Trying	715	(2)
Susan Griffin
The market economy	717	(1)
Marge Piercy
Free Flight	718	(3)
June Jordan
Cannery Town in August	721	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
The Black Back-Ups	722	(3)
Kate Rushin
Song: My Hometown	725	(1)
Bruce Springsteen
Uncles' Advice, 1957	726	(1)
Patricia Dobler
Mining Camp Residents West Virginia, July, 1935	726	(1)
Maggie Anderson
Bill Hastings	727	(1)
Todd Jailer
The Reservation Cab Driver	728	(1)
Sherman Alexie
Eden, Then and Now	729	(1)
Ruth Stone
Drama	730	(150)
Death of a Salesman	730	(78)
Arthur Miller
Aging Willy Loman, failing in his job, disappointed in his sons, tries to make things work out better.
The Piano Lesson	808	(72)
August Wilson
A brother and sister struggle for control over their legacy, a piano carved during slavery time by their grandfather.
Nonfiction	880	(57)
Women on the Breadlines	880	(6)
Meridel Le Sueur
Writing in the 1930s, Le Sueur speculates about what women do and where they go when they're out of work.
The Man Who Went to Chicago	886	(26)
Richard Wright
Wright describes his work experiences in Chicago during the Great Depression, from washing dishes to selling burial insurance.
A Question of Class	912	(17)
Dorothy Allison
``We were the they everyone talks about---the ungrateful poor'': Allison's memoir of growing up in the rural South deconstructs social class and sexual politics---and explains why she became a writer.
Mike Lefevre: Who Built the Pyramids?	929	(8)
Studs Terkel
In this oral history, a steelworker talks about the human costs of alienated labor and offers several fantasies of a better way to organize and reward work.
Money and Work: Paper Topics	937	(4)
PEACE AND WAR	941	(186)
Introduction	942	(4)
Fiction	946	(43)
August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains	946	(6)
Ray Bradbury
In the aftermath of nuclear war, an automated house keeps on running.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	952	(8)
Ambrose Bierce
Peyton Farquhar, Southern planter, is being hanged from a railroad bridge by Union soldiers, or is he?
1919	960	(6)
Toni Morrison
Shadrack declares National Suicide Day in Meridian, Ohio.
The Red Convertible	966	(8)
Louise Erdrich
When his brother Henry returns to the reservation, Lyman Lamartine tries his best to help him recover from the war in Vietnam.
Report	974	(5)
Donald Barthelme
Software Man travels to the engineers' meeting to try to persuade them to stop the war and he learns about ``the deadly testicle-destroying telegram'' and other amazing new weapons.
The Man I Killed	979	(5)
Tim O'Brien
An American fighting in Vietnam sees a great deal in the face of an enemy soldier.
Letter from Gaza	984	(5)
Ghassan Kanafani
A young man in Palestine writes to a friend who has emigrated to the U.S.A., explaining why he will not leave his country.
Poetry	989	(61)
Dulce Et Decorum Est	989	(2)
Wilfred Owen
Flags vex a dying face	991	(2)
Emily Dickinson
H. D., Helen	993	(2)
At first I was given centuries	995	(2)
Margaret Atwood
``next to of course god america i	997	(2)
E.E. Cummings
In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers	999	(2)
Dwight Okita
The Colonel	1001	(2)
Carolyn Forche
Life at War	1003	(2)
Denise Levertov
Waking This Morning	1005	(2)
Muriel Rukeyser
How Shall I Tell You?	1007	(2)
Carmen Tafolla
After the Terror	1009	(2)
Jay Parini
The School Among the Ruins	1011	(5)
Adrienne Rich
Sappho, To an army wife, in Sardis	1016	(1)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	1017	(1)
Richard Lovelace
On the Late Massacre at Piemont	1017	(1)
John Milton
The Charge of the Light Brigade	1018	(2)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Tommy	1020	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
In Flanders Fields	1021	(1)
John McCrae
The Dying Veteran	1022	(1)
Walt Whitman
Nostra Culpa	1023	(1)
Margaret Sackville
'A white low sun'	1024	(1)
Marina Tsvetayeva
Does it Matter?	1024	(1)
Siegfried Sassoon
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	1025	(1)
William Butler Yeats
I Sit and Sew	1025	(1)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The Second Coming	1026	(1)
William Butler Yeats
my sweet old etcetera	1027	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard	1028	(3)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Dawn in Wartime	1031	(1)
Babette Deutsch
the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men	1032	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Look Within	1032	(1)
Claude McKay
Naming of Parts	1033	(1)
Henry Reed
The Companion	1034	(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
For the Union Dead	1035	(2)
Robert Lowell
Can Tho	1037	(1)
Nguyen Lam Son
Without Benefit of Declaration	1038	(1)
Langston Hughes
Chile	1039	(1)
Otto Orban
Song of Napalm	1039	(1)
Bruce Weigl
Reading the Names of the Vietnam War Dead	1040	(1)
Thomas McGrath
The Loneliness of the Military Historian	1041	(3)
Margaret Atwood
Deadline	1044	(1)
Barbara Kingsolver
Picture	1045	(1)
Bekes Jr (Sherko Faiq)
An Iraqi Evening	1045	(1)
Yousif Al-Sa'igh
God's freedom lovers	1046	(1)
Ahmed Herdi
The Last Iraq	1046	(1)
Fadhil Al-Azzawi
The Soldier Born in 1983	1047	(1)
Jennifer Compton
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100	1047	(3)
Martin Espada
Drama	1050	(43)
In the Traffic of a Targeted City	1050	(43)
Marc Kaminsky
Life in New York City today intersects with life in Hiroshima the day the bomb fell.
Nonfiction	1093	(31)
The Butchering at Wounded Knee	1093	(4)
Black Elk
An old medicine man tells the story of the famous 1890 massacre of Native American men, women, and children by U.S. soldiers.
from A Time to Break Silence	1097	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this 1967 speech, King argues that the United States should get out of Vietnam.
from Persepolis	1104	(15)
Marjane Satrapi
In the last chapter of her graphic (visual) memoir about growing up in Iran in a time of war, 14 year old outspoken Marjane is sent into exile to keep her safe.
Leap	1119	(5)
Brian Doyle
``No one knows who they were: husband and wife, lovers, dear friends, colleagues, strangers thrown together at the window there at the lip of hell.'' Brian Doyle gives us a powerful witness to the tragedy of September 11,2001.
Peace and War: Paper Topics	1124	(3)
VARIETIES OF PROTEST	1127	(340)
Introduction	1128	(4)
Fiction	1132	(101)
Bartleby, the Scrivener	1132	(28)
Herman Melville
A story of passive resistance from the 19th century, as a lawyer tries to understand his clerk who keeps saying, ``I would prefer not to.''
The Heat Death of the Universe	1160	(12)
Pamela Zoline
A suburban housewife and mother tries to get through one more day.
A Loaf of Bread	1172	(15)
James Alan McPherson
Harold Green owns three grocery stores, and when a poor African American community learns that his prices are higher for them than for the white communities, the stage is set for a complicated confrontation.
from The Grapes of Wrath; ``The Wandering Wage Earner'' by John N. Webb	1187	(5)
John Steinbeck
The migrants came to California to work---and starved. ``The line between hunger and anger is a thin line.''
A Drop in the Bucket	1192	(12)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When wild-eyed radical shoemaker Jombatiste moves next door to timid, naive Cousin Tryphena, strange things happen in a small New England town.
The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner	1204	(29)
Alan Sillitoe
An angry young man in a British reform school devises an ingenious way of getting back at the system.
Poetry	1233	(69)
For My People	1233	(2)
Margaret Walker
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman	1235	(4)
Susan Griffin
The Trees	1239	(2)
Adrienne Rich
At That Moment	1241	(3)
Raymond R. Patterson
I Cannot Remember All the Times . . .	1244	(3)
Jo Carson
America	1247	(4)
Allen Ginsberg
Baby Can You Love Me?	1251	(2)
Essex Hemphill
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	1253	(2)
William Butler Yeats
Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits	1255	(2)
Martin Espada
The White House Has Disinvited the Poets	1257	(3)
Julia Alvarez
A Woman Is Talking to Death	1260	(16)
Judy Grahn
To the States	1276	(1)
Walt Whitman
For Righteousness' Sake	1276	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier
We Wear the Mask	1278	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song: Solidarity Forever	1278	(1)
Ralph Chaplin
If We Must Die	1279	(1)
Claude McKay
i sing of Olaf glad and big	1280	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca	1281	(3)
Pablo Neruda
The Unknown Citizen	1284	(1)
W. H. Auden
Frederick Douglass	1285	(1)
Robert Hayden
Harlem	1286	(1)
Langston Hughes
Telephone Conversation	1286	(1)
Wole Soyinka
To the pale poets	1287	(1)
Ray Durem
Song: I'm Gonna Be an Engineer	1288	(2)
Peggy Seeger
Ballad of Orange and Grape	1290	(2)
Muriel Rukeyser
Daddy	1292	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980	1294	(2)
Linda Hogan
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window	1296	(2)
Joy Harjo
The Powwow at the End of the World	1298	(1)
Sherman Alexie
Poem for an Iraqi Child in a Forgotten News Clip	1299	(1)
Pamela Hale
Trying to Write a Poem Against the War	1300	(1)
Katha Pollitt
They Feed They Lion	1300	(2)
Philip Levine
Drama	1302	(121)
Antigone	1302	(33)
Sophocles
Her traitorous brother has been killed and the King has decreed he shall be denied burial, but Antigone puts the laws of the gods above those of the state.
Screenplay: Salt of the Earth	1335	(88)
Herbert Bieberman
Michael Wilson
Corporate Hollywood and the U.S. government tried to suppress this 1953 film about a zinc miners' strike in New Mexico.
Nonfiction	1423	(41)
Civil Disobedience	1423	(17)
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau spends a night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes.
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	1440	(13)
Harriet Jacobs
A young slave flees her lecherous master, hides for seven years, and finally escapes to the North.
Blue Winds Dancing	1453	(7)
Thomas S. Whitecloud
A young Native American man flees the alienation of college life for the embrace of his own people and community.
I Have a Dream	1460	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
King argues eloquently for a non-racist America.
Varieties of Protest: Paper Topics	1464	(3)
HOW FICTION WORKS	1467	(16)
Alice, by Paulette Childress White	1467	(5)
Point of View	1472	(2)
Plot	1474	(2)
Character	1476	(1)
Language and Tone	1477	(2)
Setting	1479	(2)
Theme and Symbol	1481	(2)
HOW POETRY WORKS	1483	(30)
What is Poetry?	1485	(1)
Kinds of Poetry	1486	(2)
Imagery	1488	(3)
Figurative Language	1491	(5)
The Sound of a Poem	1496	(8)
Rhyme, Resonance, and Repetition	1498	(4)
Meter	1502	(1)
Scansion	1503	(1)
A Note on Tone	1504	(1)
The Speaker of the Poem	1505	(1)
The World of the Poem	1506	(1)
The World and the Poem	1507	(3)
Appendix: Explicating a Poem	1510	(3)
HOW DRAMA WORKS	1513	(14)
Drama on Stage and on the Page	1515	(2)
Changing Stage Conventions	1517	(2)
Plot and Character	1519	(2)
Tragedy and Comedy	1521	(1)
Drama and Social Criticism	1522	(1)
Film	1523	(3)
A Note on Television	1526	(1)
HOW NONFICTION WORKS	1527	(8)
Types of Nonfictional Prose	1529	(2)
Strategies of Nonfictional Prose	1531	(4)
Credits	1535	(14)
Index of Authors and Titles	1549	(10)
Index of First Lines of Poems	1559	(4)
Index of Literary Terms	1563