Introduction to Poetry, An (Book Alone) by X. J. Kennedy
Both noted poets themselves, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with a humor, style, and verve that makes the joys of poetry accessible to all.
Introduction to Poetry, An (Book Alone)
Introduction to Poetry, An (Book Alone)
Summary
Includes a collection of contemporary poems.
Introduction to Poetry, An (Book Alone) Summary
About X. J. Kennedy
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 five 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 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, 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); Interrogations at Noon (2001), winner of the 2001 American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2002); several anthologies; and an influential study of poetry?s place in contemporary America, Can Poetry Matter? (1992). 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 and a frequent commentator on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife, Mary, two sons, and an ever growing number of cats.
(The surname Gioia is pronounced JOY-A. As some of you may have already guessed, gioia is the Italian word for joy.)
Table of Contents
* Denotes section is new to this edition. Most chapters conclude with Writing Assignment and For Further Reading.
POETRY.
1. Reading a Poem.
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
Lyric Poetry.
D. H. Lawrence, Piano.
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.
Narrative Poetry.
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence.
Robert Frost, Out, Out--.
Dramatic Poetry.
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess.
Writer's Perspective.
Adrienne Rich on Writing, Recalling Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.
Writing Critically.
Can a Poem be Paraphrased?
William Stafford, Ask Me.
William Stafford, A Paraphrase of Ask Me.
Writing Assignment.
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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz, To the Desert.
Weldon Kees, For My Daughter.
The Person in the Poem.
*Natasha Trethewey, White Lies.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal.
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting.
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.
John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey.
Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links.
*Josephine Miles, Civilian.
*Connie Bensley, The Covetous Cat.
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox.
For Review and Further Study.
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper.
*Robert McDowell, At Home with Dollface.
William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border.
H. L. Hix, I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer.
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta.
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est.
Writer's Perspective.
Wilfred Owen on Writing, War Poetry.
Writing Critically.
Paying Attention to the Obvious.
Writing Assignment: Student Essay, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's My Papa's Waltz.
3. Words.
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First.
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say.
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.
John Clare, Mouse's Nest.
J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead.
Kelly Cherry, Advice to a Friend Who Paints.
Carl Sandburg, Grass.
Word Choice and Word Order.
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes.
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.
Anonymous, Carnation Milk.
William Wordsworth, My heart leaps up when I behold.
William Wordsworth, Mutability.
Anonymous, Scottsboro.
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky.
Writer's Perspective.
Lewis Carroll on Writing, Humpty Dumpty Explicates Jabberwocky.
Writing Critically.
How Much Difference Does a Word Make?
4. Saying and Suggesting.
John Masefield, Cargoes.
William Blake, London.
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock.
*Gwendolyn Brooks, The Independent Man.
Timothy Steele, Epitaph.
Geoffrey Hill, Merlin.
Walter de la Mare, The Listeners.
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice.
Clare Rossini, Final Love Note.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears.
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World.
Writer's Perspective.
Richard Wilbur on Writing, Concerning Love Calls Us to the Things of This World.
Writing Critically.
The Ways a Poem Suggests.
5. Imagery.
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro.
Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel.
T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down.
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar.
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish.
Anne Stevenson, The Victory.
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, I go.
Kobayashi Issa, only one guy.
Kobayashi Issa, Cricket.
*Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountain.
*Suiko Matsushita, Cosmos in bloom.
*Neiji Ozawa, War forced us from California.
*Neiji Ozawa, The war.
*Hakuro Wada, Even the croaking of frogs.
Etheridge Knight, *Lee Gurga, Penny Harter, John Ridland, Adelle Foley, Jennifer Brutschy, *Connie Bensley, A Selection of Haiku.
For Review and Further Study.
John Keats, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art.
Walt Whitman, The Runner.
T. E. Hulme, Image.
Chana Bloch, Tired Sex.
Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter.
*Gary Snyder, Piute Creek.
H. D., Heat.
Louise Gluck, Mock Orange.
Billy Collins, Embrace.
John Haines, Winter News.
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning.
Writer's Perspective.
Ezra Pound on Writing, The Image.
Writing Critically.
Analyzing Images.
Writing Assignment: Student Essay, Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in The Fish.
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.
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home.
Other Figures.
James Stephens, The Wind.
Chidiock Tichborne, Elegy, Written with His Own Hand in the Tower Before His Execution.
Margaret Atwood, You fit into me.
John Ashbery, The Cathedral Is.
George Herbert, The Pulley.
*Louis MacNiece, Plain Speaking.
For Review and Further Study.
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent.
Denise Levertov, Leaving Forever.
Jane Kenyon, The Suitor.
Robert Frost, The Secret Sits.
*H. D. , Love That I Bear.
A. R. Ammons, Coward.
Kay Ryan, Turtle.
Robinson Jeffers, Hands.
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.
Writer's Perspective.
Robert Frost on Writing, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor.
Writing Critically.
How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning.
7. Song.
Singing and Saying.
Ben Jonson, To Celia.
Anonymous, The Cruel Mother.
William Shakespeare, Take, O, take those lips away.
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.
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'.
*Gwendolyn Brooks, Queen of the Blues.
Writer's Perspective.
Paul McCartney on Writing, Creating Eleanor Rigby.
Writing Critically.
Is There a Difference Between Poetry and Song?
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.
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Voice.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls.
Rime.
William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga.
James Reeves, Rough Weather.
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus.
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur.
Fred Chappell, Narcissus and Echo.
Robert Frost, Desert Places.
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud.
Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane.
William Shakespeare, Full fathom five thy father lies.
Chryss Yost, Lai with Sounds of Skin.
T. S. Eliot, Virginia.
Writer's Perspective.
T. S. Eliot on Writing, The Music of Poetry.
Writing Critically.
Is it Possible to Write about Sound?
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.
Alexander Pope, Atticus.
Sir Thomas Wyatt, With serving still.
Dorothy Parker, Resume.
Meter.
Max Beerbohm, On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm.
Thomas Campion, Rose-cheeked Laura, come.
Vachel Lindsay, Factory Windows Are Always Broken.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme.
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty.
*William Carlos Williams, Heel & Toe to the End.
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
David Mason, Song of the Powers.
Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie.
Writer's Perspective.
Gwendolyn Brooks on Writing, Hearing We Real Cool.
Writing Critically.
Freeze-Framing the Sound.
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.
Ronald Gross, Yield.
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.
Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You.
Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying.
R. S. Gwynn, Scenes from the Playroom.
Timothy Steele, Summer.
A. E. Stallings, Zero.
The Epigram.
Alexander Pope, Sir John Harrington, Robert Herrick, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, J. V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Stevie Smith, Brad Leithauser, Dick Davis, Anonymous, Hilaire Belloc, Wendy Cope, A selection of epigrams.
W. H. Auden, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius Ter Maat, Clerihews.
Other Forms.
Robert Pinsky, ABC.
Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Robert Bridges, Triolet.
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina.
Writer's Perspective.
Robert Graves on Writing, Poetic Inspiration and Poetic Form.
Writing Critically.
Turning Points.
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, The Garret.
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel.
Visual Poetry.
George Herbert, Easter Wings.
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow.
Terry Ehret, from Papyrus.
Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat.
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse.
e. e. eummings, in just-.
Lucille Clifton, Homage to my hips.
Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red.
Alice Fulton, What I Like.
Writer's Perspective.
Walt Whitman on Writing, The Poetry of the Future.
Writing Critically.
Lining Up for Free Verse.
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.
John Ciardi, Most Like an Arch This Marriage.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.
Christina Rossetti, Uphill.
*Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Supernatural Love.
For Review and Further Study.
Robinson Jeffers, The Beaks of Eagles.
Sara Teasdale, The Flight.
*William Carlos Williams, The Term.
Ted Kooser, Carrie.
Rafael Campo, What the Body Told.
*Jon Stallworthy, An Evening Walk.
Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover.
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar.
Writer's Perspective.
William Butler Yeats On Writing, Poetic Symbols.
Writing Critically.
How to Read a Symbol.
13. Myth and Narrative.
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay.
D. H. Lawrence, Bavarian Gentians.
Thomas Hardy, The Oxen.
William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us.
H. D., Helen.
Archetype.
Louise Bogan, Medusa.
Personal Myth.
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming.
Jonathan Holden, The Names of the Rapids.
James Dickey, The Heaven of Animals.
Diane Thiel, Memento Mori in Middle School.
Myth and Popular Culture.
Charles Martin, Taken Up.
A. D. Hope, Imperial Adam.
Anne Sexton, Cinderella.
Writer's Perspective.
Anne Sexton On Writing, Transforming Fairy Tales.
Writing Critically.
Demystifying Myth.
Writing Assignment.
Student Essay, The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s Helen.
14. Poetry and Personal Identity.
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus.
Julia Alvarez, The women on my mother's side were known.
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity.
Claude McKay, America.
Rhina P. Espaillat, Bilingual / Bilingue.
Samuel Menashe, The Shrine Whose Shape I Am.
Francisco X. Alarcon, The X in My Name.
Wendy Rose, For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian.
*Sherman Alexie, Indian Boy Love Song (#1).
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It.
Gender.
Anne Stevenson, Sous-Entendu.
Emily Grosholz, Listening.
Donald Justice, Men at Forty.
Adrienne Rich, Women.
For Review and Further Study.
*Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to Love America.
Andrew Hudgins, Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead.
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceanera.
Alastair Reid, Speaking a Foreign Language.
Philip Larkin, Aubade.
Writer's Perspective.
*Rhina P. Espaillat, Being a Bilingual Writer.
Writing Critically.
Poetic Voice and Personal Identity.
15. Translation.
Is Poetic Translation Possible?
*Rainer Maria Rilke, Eingang.
*Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Dana Gioia, Entrance.
World Poetry.
Li Po, Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Chinese text).
Li Po, Moon-beneath Alone Drink (literal translation).
Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley, Drinking Alone by Moonlight.
Horace, Carpe Diem Odes I (11).
Horace, translated by Edwin Arlington Robinson, James
Omar Khayyam, Rubai.
Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, Dick Davis, Rubai.
Parody.
Anonymous, We four lads from Liverpool are.
*Wendy Cope, A Nursery Rhyme (as it might have been written by William Wordsworth).
Hugh Kingsmill, What, still alive at twenty-two?
Bruce Bennett, The Lady Speaks Again.
Gene Fehler, If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent.
Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla.
Writer's Perspective.
*Arthur Waley on Writing, The Art of Translation.
Writing Critically.
Parody Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery.
16. *Critical Casebook: Latin American Poetry.
Sor Juana.
*Asegura la Confianza de que Ocultura de Todo un Secreto. *Translated by Diane Thiel, She Promises to Hold a Secret in Confidence.
*Presente en que el Carino 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.
*Cien Sonetos de Amor (V). *Translated by Stephen Tapscott, One Hundred Love Sonnets (V).
Jorge Luis Borges.
*Amorosa Anticipacion. *Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Anticipation of Love.
*Los Engimas. *Translated by John Updike, The Enigmas.
Octavio Paz.
Con Los Ojos Cerrados. Translated by John Felstiner, With Our Eyes Shut.
*Certeza. *Translated by Charles Tomlinson, Certainty.
Surrealism in Latin American Poetry.
*Frida Kahlo, Two Friedas.
*Cesar Vallejo, La Colera que Quiebra al Hombre en Ninos.
*Cesar Vallejo, translated by Thomas Merton, Anger.
*Olga Orozco, La Realidad y el Deseo.
*Olga Orozco, translated by Stephen Tapscott, Reality and Desire.
For Review and Further Study.
*Alfonsina Storni, Peso Ancestral.
*Alfonsina Storni, translated by Diane Thiel, Ancestral Burden.
*Jose Emilio Pacheco, Alta Traicion.
*Jose Emilio Pacheco, translated by Alastair Reid, High Treason.
Latin American Poets on Poetry.
*Sor Juana, Reply to Sor Philothea.
*Pablo Neruda, Towards the Splendid City.
*Jorge Luis Borges, The Riddle of Poetry.
*Octavio Paz, European Languages and the Literature of the Americas.
Critics on Latin American Poetry.
*Stephanie Merrim, Endgames: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
*Alastair Reid, Translating Neruda.
*Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Borges and Paz.
Suggestions for Writing.
17. Recognizing Excellence.
Anonymous, O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face.
Grace Treasone, Life.
Emily Dickinson, A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink.
Rod McKuen, Thoughts on Capital Punishment.
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark.
Wallace McRae, Reincarnation.
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!
Carl Sandburg, Fog.
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus.
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee.
Writer's Perspective.
Edgar Allan Poe on Writing, A Long Poem Does Not Exist.
Writing Critically.
How to Begin Evaluating a Poem.
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, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, William Stafford, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Bly, 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.
Emily Dickinson, Recognizing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson, 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.
Mother to Son.
Dream Variations.
I, Too.
The Weary Blues.
Song for a Dark Girl.
*Desire.
*Prayer.
Battle of the Landlord.
End.
Island.
Theme for English B.
Subway Rush Hour.
Sliver.
Harlem [Dream Deferred].
Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes.
Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.
Langston Hughesm, 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.
Suggestions for Writing.
20. Poems for Further Reading.
*Anonymous, Lord Randall.
Anonymous, The Three Ravens.
Anonymous, The Twa Corbies.
Anonymous, Western Wind.
Anonymous, Last Words of the Prophet (Navajo Mountain Chant).
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach.
John Ashbery, At North Farm.
*Margaret Atwood, Romantic.
W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening.
W. H. Auden, Mus Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station. William Blake, The Tyger. William Blake, The Sick Rose. Eavan Boland, Anorexic. Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother. *Gwendolyn Brooks, the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways. Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. Geoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty. G. K. Chesterton, The Donkey. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan. *Billy Collins, Care & Feeding. Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters. E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond. John Donne, Death be not proud. John Donne, The Flea. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. *Rita Dove, Summit Beach, 1921. John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi. T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways. *B. H. Fairchild, A Starlit Night. Robert Frost, Birches. Robert Frost, Mending Wall. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California. Dana Gioia, California Hills in August. Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats. Donald Hall, Names of Horses. Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain. *Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush. Thomas Hardy, Hap. Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays. Seamus Heaney, Digging. Seamus Heaney, Mother of the Groom. Anthony Hecht, Adam. George Herbert, Love. Robert Herrick, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time. 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, Counting the Mad. John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn. John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be. John Keats, To Autumn. Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad. Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures. Irving Layton, The Bull Calf. *Philip Levine, They Feed, They Lion. *Adrien Louis, Looking for Judas. Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. *James Merrill, Kite Poem. Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo. *John Milton, How soon hath time. John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent. Marianne Moore, Poetry. Frederick Morgan, The Master. Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman. Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air. Lorine Niedecker, Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves. Yone Noguchi, A Selection of Hokku. Sharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys' Party. Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth. Linda Pastan, Ethics. Robert Phillips, Running on Empty. 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. Adrienne Rich, Power. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy. Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane. Mary Jo Salter, Welcome to Hiroshima. William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes. William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded monuments. *William Shakespeare, Weary with toil I haste me to my bed. William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold. William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. Louis Simpson, American Poetry. David R. Slavitt, Titanic. Christopher Smart, For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. William Jay Smith, American Primitive. Cathy Song, Stamp Collecting. *William Stafford, The Farm on the Great Plains. Wallace Stevens, Peter Quince at the Clavier. Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream. Ruth Stone, Second Hand Coat. Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dark house, by which once more I stand. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses. Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill. John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player. *Amy Uyematsu, The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles. Derek Walcott, The Virgins. Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose. Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider. *Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing. Richard Wilbur, The Writer. *C. K. Williams, Elms. 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 seke. William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop. William Butler Yeats, The Magi. William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old 21. Lives of the Poets. WRITING. 22. Writing About Literature. Beginning. Keeping a Journal. Using Sources and Maintaining Academic Integrity. Discovering Essay Ideas. Drafting and Revising, or Creativty Vs. Analysis. The Form of Your Finished Paper. Using Spell-Check and Grammar-Check Programs. Anonymous, after a poem by Jerrold H. Zar, A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers. 23. Writing About a Poem. Explicating. Robert Frost, Design. Sample Student Essay (Explication). Analyzing. Sample Student Essay (Analysis). Comparing and Contrasting. Abbie Huston Evans, Wing-Spread. Sample Student Essay(Comparison). How to Quote a Poem. Before You Begin. Suggestions for Writing. Robert Frost, In White (early draft of Design.) *24. Writing a Research Paper. Conducting Research for an Essay. Evaluating and Using Internet Sources. Guarding Academic Integrity. Acknowledging and Documenting Sources. Concluding Thoughts. Reference Guide for Citations. 25. Crititcal Approaches to Literature. Formalist Criticism. Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critic. Robert Langhaum, On Robert Browning's My Last Duchess. Biographical Criticism. Leslie Fiedler, The Relationship of Poet and Poem. Brett C. Millier, On Elizabeth Bishop's One Art. Historical Criticism. Hugh Kenner, Imagism. Joseph Meldenhauer, To His Coy Mistress and the Renaissance Tradition. Psychological Criticism. Sigmund Freud, The Destiny of Oedipus. Harold Bloom, Poetic Influence. Mythological Criticism. C. J. Jung, The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes. Northrop Frye, Mythic Archetypes. Sociological Criticism. Georg Lukacs, Content Determines Form. Alfred Kazin, Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln. Gender Criticism. Elaine Showalter, Toward a Feminist Poetics. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Freedom of Emily Dickinson. Reader-Response Criticism. Stanley Fish, An Eskimo A Rose for Emily. Robert Scholes, How Do We Make a Poem? Deconstructionist Criticism. Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author. Geoffrey Hartman, On Wordsworth's A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal. Cultural Studies. Mark Bauerlein, What is Cultural Studies? Heather Glen, The Stance of Observation in William Blake's London.
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Introduction to Poetry, An (Book Alone) by X. J. Kennedy
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