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Cover Page
Title Page
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Preface: About This Book
Pairing Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology helps students succeed.
Brief Contents
Contents
About Poets and Poetry
I An Introduction to Poetry
1 The Poem as Life
The Private Life
William Blake (1757–1827)
Infant Sorrow
Louise Glück (b. 1943)
The School Children
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
in Just-
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
Those Winter Sundays
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Hours Continuing Long
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
The Plain Sense of Things
The Public Life
Michael S. Harper (1938–2016)
American History
Charles Simic (b. 1938)
Old Couple
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Skunk Hour
Nature and Time
Anonymous
The Cuckoo Song
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
The Spring Poem
John Keats (1795–1821)
The Human Seasons
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 60
In Brief: The Poem as Life
Reading Other Poems
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
They Flee from Me
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
On My First Son
John Milton (1608–1674)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Keats (1795–1821)
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Theme for English B
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
Daddy
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Facing It
Julia Alvarez (b. 1950)
Homecoming
2 The Poem as Arranged Life
The Private Life
William Blake (1757–1827)
Infant Joy
William Blake (1757–1827)
Infant Sorrow
Louise Glück (b. 1943)
The School Children
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
in Just-
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
Those Winter Sundays
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Hours Continuing Long
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
The Plain Sense of Things
The Public Life
Michael S. Harper (1938–2016)
American History
Charles Simic (b. 1938)
Old Couple
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Skunk Hour
Nature and Time
Anonymous
The Cuckoo Song
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
The Spring Poem
John Keats (1795–1821)
The Human Seasons
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 60
In Brief: The Poem as Arranged Life
Reading Other Poems
Anonymous
Lord Randal
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 29
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)
Tichborne’s Elegy
John Donne (1572–1631)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Upon Julia’s Clothes
George Herbert (1593–1633)
Love (III)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
The Convergence of the Twain
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
The Road Not Taken
Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946)
Live Jazz, Franklin Park Zoo
3 Poems as Pleasure
Rhythm
Rhyme
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
On Gut
Structure
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Poem
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
We Real Cool
Images
William Blake (1757–1827)
London
Argument
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618)
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Poignancy
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
A slumber did my spirit seal
Wisdom
A New Language
Finding Yourself
In Brief: Poems as Pleasure
Reading Other Poems
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 130
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
William Blake (1757–1827)
The Sick Rose
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
Pied Beauty
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
The Darkling Thrush
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
After Apple-Picking
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
Snake
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
My Papa’s Waltz
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
The Season of Phantasmal° Peace imaginary
Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962)
Nineteen
4 Describing Poems
Poetic Kinds
Narrative versus Lyric; Narrative in Lyric
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012)
Necessities of Life
Philip Larkin (1922–1985)
Talking in Bed
Classifying Lyric Poems
Content Genres
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
The Heart asks Pleasure – first –
Speech Acts
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
Grass
Outer Form
Line-Width
Rhythm
Poem-Length
Combinatorial Form-Names
Inner Structural Form
Sentences
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
The Argument of His Book
Person
Agency
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Tenses
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
A slumber did my spirit seal
Images, or Sensual Words
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
Metaphors
Exploring a Poem
John Keats (1795–1821)
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
1. Meaning
2. Antecedent Scenario (“Backstory”)
3. A Division into Structural Parts
4. The Climax
5. The Other Parts
6. Find the Skeleton
7. Games the Poet Plays with the Skeleton
8. Language
9. Tone
10. Agency and Speech Acts
11. Roads Not Taken
12. Genre, Form, and Rhythm
13. The Imagination
In Brief: Describing Poems
Reading Other Poems
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 129
George Herbert (1593–1633)
Easter Wings
John Milton (1608–1674)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
John Keats (1795–1821)
Ode to a Nightingale
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
Dover Beach
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Mending Wall
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)
From the Frontier of Writing
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
San Sepolcro
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
Evolution
5 The Play of Language
Sound Units
Word Roots
Words
Sentences
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
The Heart asks Pleasure – first –
Implication
The Ordering of Language
George Herbert (1593–1633)
Prayer (I)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 66
Michael Drayton (1564–1631)
Since there’s no help
In Brief: The Play of Language
Reading Other Poems
John Donne (1572–1631)
Holy Sonnet 14
John Keats (1795–1821)
To Autumn
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
My Last Duchess
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
The Wild Swans at Coole
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
One Art
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Poema para los Californios Muertos
6 Constructing a Self
Multiple Aspects
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 30
Change of Discourse
Space and Time
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)
Mid-Term Break
Testimony
Motivations
Typicality
Tone as Marker of Selfhood
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
Spring and Fall
Imagination
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
Persona
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
In Brief: Constructing a Self
Reading Other Poems
John Dryden (1631–1700)
Sylvia the Fair
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
The Ruined Maid
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
Heritage
Charles Wright (b. 1935)
Self-Portrait
Carl Phillips (b. 1959)
Africa Says
7 Poetry and Social Identity
Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012)
Mother-in-Law
Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012)
Prospective Immigrants Please Note
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
Genius Child
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
Me and the Mule
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
High to Low
Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)
Terminus
In Brief: Poetry and Social Identity
Reading Other Poems
Robert Southwell (1561 – 1595)
The Burning Babe
Thomas Nashe (1567 – c. 1601)
A Litany in Time of Plague
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
William Blake (1757 – 1827)
The Little Black Boy
Edward Lear (1812 – 1888)
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
Felix Randal
David Mura (b. 1952)
An Argument: On 1942
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Wingfoot Lake
Sheila Ortiz Taylor (b. 1939)
The Way Back
8 History and Regionality
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
A slumber did my spirit seal
History
Robert Lowell (1917 – 1977)
The March 1
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
World War II
Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est
Regionality
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
In Brief: History and Regionality
Reading Other Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
Kubla Khan
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour
John Keats (1795 – 1821)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955)
Anecdote of the Jar
Robert Lowell (1917 – 1977)
For the Union Dead
Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980)
Night, Death, Mississippi
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)
The Asians Dying
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
The Gulf
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
What the End Is For
Silvia Curbelo (b. 1955)
Balsero Singing
Dionisio Martínez (b. 1956)
History as a Second Language
9 Attitudes, Values, Judgments
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Sonnet 76
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Epilogue
In Brief: Attitudes, Values, Judgments
Reading Other Poems
Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
Still to Be Neat
Richard Lovelace (1618–1657)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
How Do I Love Thee?
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
The Gift Outright
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
Sunflower Sutra
Louise Glück (b. 1943)
Mock Orange
10 Writing about Poems
A Brief Example
Robert Herrick (1591 – 1674)
Divination by a Daffodil
A Longer Example
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Getting It Down on Paper
Begin with a Question
Present Your Case
Draw Your Conclusions
Keeping Your Readers in Mind
A Note on Writing about Unrhymed Poems
Organizing Your Paper
A Note on Well-Ordered Paragraphs
Checking Your Work
11 Studying Groups of Poems
Walt Whitman: Poems on Lincoln
Hush’d Be the Camps To-day
O Captain! My Captain!
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
This Dust Was Once the Man
Emily Dickinson: Poems on Time
1
I like to see it lap the Miles –
2
Because I could not stop for Death –
3
The Heart asks Pleasure – first –
4
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind
5
The first Day’s Night had come –
6
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
7
There’s a certain Slant of light
8
Pain – expands the Time
Writing Your Paper
II Anthology
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
Reservation Love Song
Paula Gunn allen (1939 – 2008)
Zen Americana
A. R. Ammons (1926 – 2001)
The City Limits
Anonymous
Western Wind
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973)
Musée des Beaux Arts
John Berryman (1914 – 1972)
Dream Song 4
Dream Song 384
Frank Bidart (b. 1939)
To My Father
Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979)
Poem
Sestina
William Blake (1757 – 1827)
Ah Sun-flower
The Garden of Love
The Lamb
The Tyger
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Lucie Brock-Broido (b. 1956)
Domestic Mysticism
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)
Remembrance
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000)
The Bean Eaters
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)
A Red, Red Rose
George Gordon, lord byron (1788 – 1824)
When We Two Parted
Victoria Chang (b. 1970)
$4.99 All You Can Eat Sunday Brunch
Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010)
the lost baby poem
Henri Cole (b. 1956)
40 Days and 40 Nights
Eduardo C. Corral (b. 1973)
Monologue of a Vulture’s Shadow
William Cowper (1731 – 1800)
Epitaph on a Hare
Hart Crane (1899 – 1932)
To Brooklyn Bridge
Countee Cullen (1903 – 1946)
Incident
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
I like a look of Agony
Much Madness is divinest Sense –
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –
The Soul selects her own Society –
There’s a certain Slant of light
John Donne (1572 – 1631)
Breake of day
Death, be not proud
Paul Laurence dunbar (1872 – 1906)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Robert Gould Shaw
We Wear the Mask
Thomas Sayers Ellis (b. 1965)
View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
Concord Hymn
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
The Strange People
Mark Ford (b. 1962)
The Long Man
Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
Birches
Design
Thomas Gray (1716 – 1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004)
The Man with Night Sweats
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper
Terrance Hayes (b. 1971)
Woofer (When I Consider the African-American)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
God’s Grandeur
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
A. E. Housman (1859 – 1936)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
The Weary Blues
John Keats (1795 – 1821)
In drear-nighted December
La Belle Dame sans Merci
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
Jane Kenyon (1947 – 1995)
Otherwise
Kenneth Koch (1925 – 2002)
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
The Towers
Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985)
Reasons for Attendance
This Be the Verse
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992)
Hanging Fire
Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678)
To His Coy Mistress
Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)
Monody
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972)
Poetry
Pat Mora (b. 1942)
La Migra
Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)
Omnivore
Frank O’hara (1926 – 1966)
Why I Am Not a Painter
Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Carl Phillips (b. 1959)
Passing
Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963)
Morning Song
Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972)
In a Station of the Metro
Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012)
Diving into the Wreck
Alberto Ríos (b. 1952)
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun
Sonnet 18
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
Ozymandias
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
On a Field Trip at Fredericksburg
Stevie Smith (1902 – 1971)
Not Waving but Drowning
Tracy K. Smith (b. 1972)
Credulity
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Axe Handles
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 1599)
Sonnet 75
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955)
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Planet on the Table
The Snow Man
Adrienne Su (b. 1967)
The English Canon°
May Swenson (1913 – 1989)
I Look at My Hand
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892)
From In Memoriam A. H. H.
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)
Fern Hill
Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966)
What Is Evidence
James Welch (1940 – 2003)
Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation
Phillis Wheatley (1753 – 1784)
To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works.
Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
From Song of Myself
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Cottage Street, 1953
William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963)
Spring and All
This Is Just to Say
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Ode
James Wright (1927 – 1980)
A Blessing
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
Among School Children
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Appendices
Appendix 1. On Prosody
Poems in Counted Lines
Free Verse
Summary
Appendix 2. On Grammar
Noun
Adjective
Pronoun
Verb
Adverb
Appendix 3. On Speech Acts
Appendix 4. On Rhetorical Devices
Appendix 5. On Lyric Subgenres
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines
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