Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)

by Gwynn, R.S.

• ISBN13: 9780321087201
• ISBN10: 0321087208
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology features more than 250 poems, presenting a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to Cathy Song and Sherman Alexie. Chronologically organized within each genre, the diverse selection of poems covers the full scope of the poetic tradition from popular ballads to works by poets born in the 60s and 70s. An " Introduction to Poetry" offers instruction for reading and analyzing poetry, defining key terms in the context of the discussion. Biographical headnotes highlight common themes and ideas in the author's body of work. Individuals who want a brief overview of the study of poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxv
Introduction	1	(44)
An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts	1	(1)
Speaker, Listener, and Context	2	(2)
The Star-Spangled Banner	4	(5)
Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic	9	(3)
The Language of Poetry	12	(6)
Figurative Language	18	(4)
Allegory and Symbol	22	(3)
Tone of Voice	25	(2)
Repetition: Sounds and Schemes	27	(2)
Meter and Rhythm	29	(6)
Free Verse, Open Form, and Closed Form	35	(2)
Stanza Forms	37	(2)
Fixed Forms	39	(3)
Literary History and Poetic Conventions, and Theory	42	(3)
Writing About Poetry	45	(12)
Poetry	57	(370)
Anonymous
Western Wind	59	(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan	59	(1)
Sir Patrick Spens	60	(2)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542)
They Flee from Me	62	(1)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
When I Was Fair and Young	63	(1)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Amoretti: Sonnet 75	64	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1	65	(1)
Robert Southwell (1561?-1595)
The Burning Babe	66	(1)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Idea: Sonnet 61	67	(1)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet 18	68	(1)
Sonnet 20	69	(1)
Sonnet 30	69	(1)
Sonnet 73	70	(1)
Sonnet 116	70	(1)
Sonnet 130	71	(1)
When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)	71	(2)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
There Is a Garden in Her Face	73	(1)
John Donne (1572-1631)
The Canonization	74	(1)
The Flea	75	(1)
Holy Sonnet 10	76	(1)
Holy Sonnet 14	77	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	78	(1)
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
On My First Son	79	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	80	(1)
Mary Wroth (1587?-1651)
In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn	81	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	82	(1)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Easter Wings	83	(1)
Love (III)	84	(1)
The Pulley	84	(1)
Redemption	85	(1)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Song	86	(1)
John Milton (1608-1674)
How Soon Hath Time	87	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	87	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	88	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
The Author to Her Book	89	(1)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	90	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress	91	(2)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	93	(1)
Epigram on Milton	94	(1)
Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
Huswifery	94	(1)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Description of a City Shower	95	(3)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
from An Essay on Criticism	98	(2)
Ode on Solitude	100	(1)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	101	(4)
Cristopher Smart (1722-1771)
from Jubilate Agno	105	(3)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
The Wild Honey Suckle	108	(2)
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper	110	(1)
The Little Black Boy	111	(1)
A Poison Tree	112	(1)
The Tyger	112	(1)
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose	113	(1)
John Barleycorn	114	(2)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	116	(1)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	117	(1)
Lines (Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey...)	118	(4)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room	122	(1)
Ode (Intimations of Immortality...)	123	(6)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Frost at Midnight	129	(3)
Kubla Khan	132	(1)
Work Without Hope	133	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Stanzas	134	(1)
When We Two Parted	135	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind	136	(2)
Ozymandias	138	(1)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
To the Fringed Gentian	139	(1)
John Keats (1795-1821)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	140	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	142	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	143	(3)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	146	(1)
When I Have Fears	147	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43	148	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Arsenal at Springfield	149	(2)
The Cross of Snow	151	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Haunted Palace	151	(2)
The Raven	153	(4)
To Helen	157	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Eagle	158	(1)
In Memoriam A.H.H., 54	158	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	159	(1)
Ulysses	160	(2)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess	162	(2)
Porphyria's Lover	164	(2)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gary and Dim	166	(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	167	(6)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	173	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	174	(6)
Song of Myself, 6	180	(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	181	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach	182	(2)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	184	(1)
I Died for Beauty---But Was Scarce	185	(1)
I Heard a Fly Buzz---When I Died---	185	(1)
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close	186	(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	186	(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society---	187	(1)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Up-Hill	188	(1)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?	189	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	190	(2)
Neutral Tones	192	(1)
The Ruined Maid	192	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
God's Grandeur	194	(1)
Pied Beauty	194	(1)
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Eight O'Clock	195	(1)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	195	(1)
Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall	196	(1)
``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff...''	196	(3)
To an Athlete Dying Young	199	(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	200	(1)
Leda and the Swan	200	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	201	(1)
The Second Coming	202	(1)
The Song of Wandering Aengus	203	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Firelight	204	(1)
Eros Turannos	205	(1)
The Mill	206	(1)
Richard Cory	207	(1)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Black Riders, VI	208	(1)
War Is Kind, XXI	209	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask	209	(1)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Acquainted with the Night	210	(1)
After Apple-Picking	210	(2)
Design	212	(1)
Home Burial	212	(4)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	216	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	217	(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Anecdote of the Jar	218	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	218	(1)
The Snow Man	219	(1)
Sunday Morning	220	(4)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother	224	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	225	(1)
Spring and All	226	(1)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro	227	(1)
Portrait d'une Femme	227	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife:A Letter	228	(1)
Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
Let No Charitable Hope	229	(1)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Pear Tree	230	(1)
Sea Rose	231	(1)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Dreamers	231	(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
The Purse-Seine	232	(2)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
The Fish	234	(1)
Silence	235	(1)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Journey of the Magi	236	(1)
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock	237	(5)
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	242	(1)
Piazza Piece	243	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way	244	(1)
Not in a Silver Casket	244	(1)
Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word	245	(1)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why	246	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est	246	(2)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
One Perfect Rose	248	(1)
Resume	248	(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
nobody loses all the time	249	(1)
pity this busy monster, manunkind	250	(1)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	251	(1)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Reapers	252	(1)
Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Women	252	(1)
Hart Crane (1899-1933)
Chaplinesque	253	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Dream Boogie	254	(1)
Theme for English B	255	(2)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Incident	257	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	257	(1)
Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905)
Halley's Comet	258	(1)
A.D. Hope (1907-2259)
Imperial Adam	259	(2)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
As I Walked Out One Evening	261	(2)
Musee des Beaux Arts	263	(1)
The Unknown Citizen	264	(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Dolor	265	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	266	(1)
Root Cellar	266	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Fish	267	(2)
One Art	269	(1)
May Sarton (1912-1995)
A Guest	270	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays	271	(1)
Dudley Randall (1914-2000)
Ballad of Birmingham	272	(1)
William Stafford (1914-1993)
Traveling Through the Dark	273	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	274	(1)
Fern Hill	275	(2)
Weldon Kees (1914-1955)
For My Daughter	277	(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	278	(1)
Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
For Malcolm X	278	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2279)
the mother	279	(1)
We Real Cool	280	(1)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
For the Union Dead	281	(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (B. 1919)
A Coney Island of the Mind, #15	283	(2)
May Swenson (1919-1989)
How Everything Happens	285	(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
A Primer of the Daily Round	286	(1)
Richard Wilbur (B. 1921)
Junk	287	(2)
Playboy	289	(1)
The Writer	290	(1)
Year's End	291	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Next, Please	292	(1)
Aubade	293	(1)
This Be the Verse	294	(1)
James Dickey (1923-1997)
The Heaven of Animals	295	(2)
Alan Dugan (B. 1923)
Love Song: I and Thou	297	(1)
Anthony Hecht (B. 1923)
``More Light! More Light!''	298	(2)
Denise Levrtov (1923-1999)
The Ache of Marriage	300	(1)
Louis Simpson (B. 1923)
American Classic	301	(1)
My Father in the Night Commanding No	302	(1)
Vassar Miller (1924-1997)
Subterfuge	303	(1)
Donald Justice (B. 1925)
Counting the Mad	304	(1)
Carolyn Kizer (B. 1925)
The Ungrateful Garden	305	(1)
Maxine Kumin (B. 1925)
Noted in the New York Times	306	(1)
Robert Creeley (B. 1926)
I Know a Man	307	(1)
Oh No	308	(1)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
A Supermarket in California	308	(2)
James Merrill (1926-1995)
Casual Wear	310	(1)
Charles on Fire	310	(1)
W.D. Snodgrass (B. 1926)
Mementos, I	311	(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
The Day Lady Died	312	(2)
John Ashbery (B. 1927)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	314	(1)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons	315	(1)
W.S. Merwin (B. 1927)
For the Anniversary of My Death	316	(1)
The Last One	317	(2)
James Wright (1927-1980)
A Blessing	319	(1)
Saint Judas	320	(1)
Philip Levine (B. 1928)
Genius	320	(1)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Cinderella	321	(3)
The Truth the Dead Know	324	(1)
Thom Gunn (B. 1929)
From the Wave	325	(1)
Terminal	326	(1)
John Hollander (B. 1929)
Adam's Task	327	(1)
X.J. Kennedy (B. 1929)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day	328	(2)
Adrienne Rich (B. 1929)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	330	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	330	(3)
Rape	333	(1)
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
Pike	334	(2)
Gary Snyder (B. 1930)
A Walk	336	(1)
Derek Walcott (B. 1930)
Central America	337	(1)
Miller Williams (B. 1930)
The Book	338	(1)
Linda Pastan (B. 1932)
Crocuses	339	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Daddy	340	(3)
Edge	343	(1)
Metaphors	343	(1)
Gerald Barrax (B. 1933)
Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985	344	(1)
Anne Stevenson (B. 1933)
Sous-Entendu	345	(1)
Mark Strand (B. 1934)
The Tunnel	346	(1)
Mary Oliver (B. 1935)
The Black Walnut Tree	347	(2)
Fred Chappell (B. 1936)
Narcissus and Echo	349	(1)
Lucille Clifton (B. 1936)
to my last period	350	(1)
Marge Piercy (B. 1936)
Barbie Doll	351	(1)
Nancy Willard (B. 1936)
A Hardware Store as Proof of the Existence of God	352	(1)
Betty Adcock (B. 1938)
Digression on the Nuclear Age	353	(1)
Gary Gildner (B. 1938)
First Practice	354	(1)
Robert Phillips (B. 1938)
Compartments	355	(3)
Charles Simic (B. 1938)
Stone	358	(1)
Dabney Stuart (B. 1938)
Discovering My Daughter	359	(1)
Margaret Atwood (B. 1939)
Siren song	359	(2)
Stephen Dunn (B. 1939)
The Sacred	361	(1)
Seamus Heaney (B. 1939)
Bogland	362	(1)
Digging	363	(1)
Punishment	364	(1)
Tom Disch (B. 1940)
Ballade of the New God	365	(2)
Florence Cassen Mayers (B. 1940)
All-American Sestina	367	(1)
Pattiann Rogres (B. 1940)
Foreplay	368	(2)
Robert Hass (B. 1941)
Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan	370	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz (B. 1941)
The Serenity in Stones	371	(1)
Gibbons Ruark (B. 1941)
The Visitor	371	(1)
Benjamin Alire Saenz (B. 1942)
To the Desert	372	(1)
Gladys Cardiff (B. 1942)
Combing	373	(1)
Charles Martin (B. 1942)
E.S.L.	374	(3)
Sharon Olds (B. 1942)
The One Girl at the Boys Party	377	(1)
James Tate (B. 1943)
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems	378	(1)
Ellen Bryant Voight (B. 1943)
Daughter	378	(1)
Robert Morgan (B. 1944)
Mountain Bride	379	(2)
Craig Raine (B. 1944)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	381	(1)
Enid Shomer (B. 1944)
Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen	382	(1)
Alice Walker (B. 1944)
Even as I Hold You	383	(1)
Wendy Cope (B. 1945)
Rondeau Redouble	384	(1)
B.H. Fairchild (B. 1945)
Body and Soul	385	(3)
Leon Stokesbury (B. 1945)
Evening's End 1943-1970	388	(5)
Marilyn Nelson (B. 1946)
The Ballad of Aunt Geneva	393	(2)
AI (B. 1947)
Child Beater	395	(1)
Jim Hall (B. 1947)
Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too	396	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947)
Facing It	397	(2)
R.S. Gwynn (B. 1948)
Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry	399	(1)
Timothy Steele (B. 1948)
Sapphics Against Anger	400	(1)
David Bottoms (B. 1949)
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt	401	(1)
James Fenton (B. 1949)
God, a Poem	402	(2)
Sarah Cortez (B. 1950)
Tu Negrito	404	(1)
Carolyn Forche (B. 1950)
The Colonel	405	(1)
Dana Gioia (B. 1950)
Planting a Sequoia	406	(1)
Rodney Jones (B. 1950)
Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.	407	(2)
Timohy Murphy (B. 1950)
The Track of a Storm	409	(1)
Joy Harjo (B. 1951)
Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On	410	(1)
Garrett Hongo (B. 1951)
Crossing Ka'u Desert	411	(1)
Andrew Hudgins (B. 1951)
Air View of an Industrial Scene	412	(1)
Rita Dove (B. 1952)
Adolescence---III	413	(1)
Mark Jarman (B. 1952)
After Disappointment	414	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye (B. 1952)
The Traveling Onion	415	(1)
Alberto Rios (B. 1952)
The Purpose of Altar Boys	416	(1)
Gary Soto (B. 1952)
The Skeptics	417	(1)
Julia Alvarez (B. 1953)
Bilingual Sestina	418	(2)
David Mason (B. 1954)
Song of the Powers	420	(1)
Mary Jo Salter (B. 1954)
Welcome to Hiroshima	421	(2)
Cathy Song (B. 1955)
Stamp Collecting	423	(1)
Janet Holmes (B. 1956)
Cinquains for Rocky	424	(1)
Catherine Tufariello (B. 1963)
Useful Advice	425	(2)
Appendix 1: Poems Grouped by Genre, Technique, or Subject	427	(6)
Appendix 2: Traditional Stanza, Fixed, and Nonce Forms	433	(4)
Acknowledgments	437	(6)
Index of Critical Terms	443	(2)
Index of Poets, Titles, and First Lines	445