(Each chapter contains a Writer's Perspective and/or Writing Critically.) 1. Reading a Poem. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, William Butler Yeats. Lyric Poetry. Piano, D. H. Lawrence. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, Adrienne Rich. Narrative Poetry. Sir Patrick Spence, Anonymous. Out, Out - , Robert Frost. Dramatic Poetry. My Last Duchess, Robert Browning. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, Adrienne Rich. Ask Me, William Stafford. A Paraphrase Of Ask Me, William Stafford. 2. Listening To A Voice. Tone. My Papa's Waltz, Theodore Roethke. For a Lady I Know, Countee Cullen. The Author To Her Book, Anne Bradstreet. To a Locomotive in Winter, Walt Whitman. I Like to See It Lap the Miles, Emily Dickinson. Homecoming, Langston Hughes. For My Daughter, Weldon Kees. The Person in the Poem. Birch Canoe, Carter Revard. Luke Havergal, Edward Arlington Robinson. The Gold Lily, Louise Gl?ck. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth. A Glass of Beer, James Stephens. Her Kind, Anne Sexton. The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams. Irony. Oh No, Robert Creeley. The Unknown Citizen, W. H. Auden. Rites of Passage, Sharon Olds. In Westminster Abbey, John Betjeman. The Golf Links, Sara N. Cleghorn. I Stop Writing the Poem, Tess Gallagher. I Saw a Jolly Hunter, Charles Causley. The Workbox, Thomas Hardy. For Review and Further Study. The Chimney Sweeper, William Blake. In The Counselor's Waiting Room, Bettie Sellers. High Treason, Jose Emilio Pacheco. At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border, William Stafford. To Lucasta, Richard Lovelace. Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen. On War Poetry, Wilfred Owen. Student Essay: Word Choice, Tone, and Point Of View In Roethke's My Papa's Waltz. Further Suggestions for Writing. 3. Words. Literal Meaning: What A Poem Says First. This Is Just To Say, William Carlos Williams. Silence, Marianne Moore. Riding A One-Eyed Horse, Henry Taylor. Down, Wanton, Down! Robert Graves. Looking Up At Leaves, Barbara Howes. Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, For You, John Donne. The Value Of A Dictionary. In The Elegy Season, Richard Wilbur. Friend, On This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead, J. V. Cunningham. The Dead Have No Respect, David R. Axelrod. Advice To A Friend Who Paints, Kelly Cherry. Aftermath, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Mouse's Nest, John Clare. Word Choice And Word Order. Reason, Josephine Miles. How I Came To Have A Man's Name, Emma Lee Warrior. The Ruined Maid, Thomas Hardy. The Fury Of Aerial Bombardment, Richard Eberhart. Lonely Hearts, Wendy Cope. For Review And Further Study. Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town, E. E. Cummings. The Names Of The Rapids, Jonathan Holden. Upon Julia's Clothes, Robert Herrick. Carnation Milk, Anonymous. My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, William Wordsworth. Mutability, William Wordsworth. Scottsboro, Anonymous. Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll. Humpty Dumpty Explicates Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll. 4. Saying And Suggesting. Cargoes, John Masefield. London, William Blake. Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock, Wallace Stevens. The Bean Eaters, Gwendolyn Brooks. A Mongoloid Child Handling Shells On The Beach, Richard Snyder. Epitaph, Timothy Steele. Merlin, Geoffrey Hill. The Listeners, Walter de la Mare. Fire And Ice, Robert Frost. Song, Cynthia Zarin. Tears, Idle Tears, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Love Calls Us to the Things of This World, Richard Wilbur. 5. Imagery. In a Station of The Metro, Ezra Pound. The Piercing Chill I Feel, Taniguchi Buson. The Winter Evening Settles Down, T. S. Eliot. Root Cellar, Theodore Roethke. The Fish, Elizabeth Bishop. The Victory, Anne Stevenson. Winter News, John Haines. A Route Of Evanescence, Emily Dickinson. Reapers, Jean Toomer. Pied Beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins. About Haiku. The Falling Flower, Arakida Moritake. Heat-Lightning Streak, Matsuo Basho. In The Old Stone Pool, Matsuo Basho. On The One-Ton Temple Bell, Taniguchi Buson. I Go, Taniguchi Buson. Only One Guy, Kobayashi Issa. Cricket, Kobayashi Issa. Haiku Ambulance, Richard Brautigan. A Selection Of Haiku. Gary Snyder. Michael B. Stillman. Penny Harter. Jennifer Brutschy. Richard Wright. Hayden Carruth. John Ridland. Etheridge Knight. For Review And Further Study. Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art, John Keats. The Runner, Walt Whitman. Image, T. E. Hulme. The Great Figure, William Carlos Williams. Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter, Robert Bly. Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout, Gary Snyder. Heat, H. D. Mock Orange, Louise Gl?ck. Embrace, Billy Collins. Letter from Germany, Emily Grosholz. Not Waving But Drowning, Steve Smith. The Image, Ezra Pound. Student Essay: Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in The Fish. 6. Figures of Speech. Why Speak Figuratively? The Eagle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? William Shakespeare. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Howard Moss. Sindhi Woman, Jon Stallworthy. Metaphor And Simile. My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun, Emily Dickinson. Flower In The Crannied Wall, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. To See a World in a Grain of Sand, William Blake. Metaphors, Sylvia Plath. Simile, N. Scott Momaday. Castoff Skin, Ruth Whitman. It Dropped So Low - In My Regard, Emily Dickinson. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, Craig Raine. Other Figures. The Wind, James Stephens. Elegy, Written with His Own Hand, Chidiock Tichborne. You Fit into Me, Margaret Atwood. The Cathedral Is, John Ashbery. The Pulley, George Herbert. I Knew a Woman, Theodore Roethke. For Review and Further Study. The Silken Tent, Robert Frost. Leaving Forever, Denise Levertov. The Suitor, Jane Kenyon. The Secret Sits, Robert Frost. Song of Man Chipping an Arrowhead, W. S. Merwin. Coward, A. R. Ammons. Turtle, Kay Ryan. Hands, Robinson Jeffers. Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose, Robert Burns. The Importance of Poetic Metaphor, Robert Frost. 7. Song. Singing and Saying. To Celia, Ben Jonson. The Cruel Mother, Anonymous. From Peter Piper, Run D. M. C. Take, O, Take Those Lips Away, William Shakespeare. Richard Cory, Edwin Arlington Robinson. Richard Cory, Paul Simon. Ballads. Bonny Barbara Allan, Anonymous. Ballad of Birmingham, Dudley Randall. Blues. Jailhouse Blues, Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams. Funeral Blues, W. H. Auden. For Review and Further Study. Eleanor Rigby, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The Silver Swan, Who Living had No Note, Anonymous. Jerusalem, William Blake. Paul McCartney, on Writing, Creating Eleanor Rigby. 8. Sound. Sound as Meaning. True Ease in Writing Comes from Art, Not Chance, Alexander Pope. Who Goes with Fergus? William Butler Yeats. Recital, John Updike. The Watch, Frances Cornford. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, William Wordsworth. Rain, Emanuel di Pasquale. When Maidens are Young, Aphra Behn. Alliteration and Assonance. Eight O'Clock, A. E. Housman. Upon Julia's Voice, Robert Herrick. Girl Help, Janet Lewis. The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Rime. On My Boat on Lake Cayuga, William Cole. The Angel that Presided o'er My Birth, William Blake. The Hippopotamus, Hilaire Belloc. Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying, Mark Jarman. Leda and the Swan, William Butler Yeats. God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Narcissus and Echo, Fred Chappell. Desert Places, Robert Frost. Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud. In Memoriam John Coltrane, Michael Stillman. Full Fathom Five thy Father Lies, William Shakespeare. With Rue My Heart is Laden, A. E. Housman. Virginia, T. S. Eliot. On the Music of Poetry, T. S. Eliot. 9. Rhythm. Stresses and Pauses. We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks. Break, Break, Break, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, Keep Time with My Salt Tears, Ben Jonson. Atticus, Alexander Pope. With Serving Still, Sir Thoms Wyatt. R?sum?, Dorothy Parker. Meter. On the Imprint of the First English Edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm. Rose-cheeked Laura, Come, Thomas Campion. On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia, Walter Savage Landor. Counting out Rhyme, Edna St. Vincent Millay. When I was One-and-Twenty, A. E. Housman. The Descent of Winter (section 10/30), William Carlos Williams. Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman. Song of the Powers, David Mason. Dream Boogie, Langston Hughes. Writer's Perspective: On Writing and Hearing. We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks. 10. Closed Form. Formal Patterns. This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable, John Keats. Counting the Beats, Robert Graves. Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star), John Donne. Brief Bio, Phillis Levin. Yield, Ronald Gross. The Sonnet. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds, William Shakespeare. Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part, Michael Drayton. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Acquainted with the Night, Robert Frost. My First Poem for You, Kim Addonizio. Scenes from the Playroom, R. S. Gwynn. Summer, Timothy Steele. Facts, Thomas Carper. Epigram. A Selection of Epigrams. Alexander Pope, Martial, Sir John Harrington, Robert Herrick, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, J. V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Stevie Smith, Thom Gunn, Brad Leithauser, Hilaire Belloc, Wendy Cope. Clerihews. W. H. Auden, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius Ter Maat. Other Forms. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas. Rondeau, Leigh Hunt. Triolet, Robert Bridges. Sestina, Elizabeth Bishop. On Poetic Inspiration and Poetic Form, Robert Graves. 11. Open Form. Six Variations (Part III), Denise Levertov. Buffalo Bill's, E. E. Cummings. Victory Comes Late, Emily Dickinson. The Dance, William Carlos Williams. The Heart, Stephen Crane. Cavalry Crossing a Ford, Walt Whitman. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Wallace Stevens. First Practice, Gary Gildner. The Colonel, Carolyn Forche. Visual Poetry. Easter Wings, George Herbert. Swan and Shadow, John Hollander. From Papyrus, Terry Ehret. Concrete Cat, Dorthi Charles. Seeing the Logic of Open Form. In Just - , E. E. Cummings. Jump Cabling, Linda Pastan. Homage to My Hips, Lucille Clifton. I Shall Paint My Nails Red, Carole Satyamurti. What I Like, Alice Fulton. The Poetry of the Future, Walt Whitman. 12. Symbol. The Boston Evening Transcript, T. S. Eliot. The Lightning is a Yellow Fork, Emily Dickinson. Neutral Tones, Thomas Hardy. The Parable of the Good Seed, Matthew 13:24-30. Redemption, George Herbert. Most Like an Arch This Marriage, John Ciardi. I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died, Emily Dickinson. The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost. Uphill, Christina Rossetti. Signs, Gjertrud Schnackenberg. For Review and Further Study. The Beaks of Eagles, Robinson Jeffers. The Flight, Sara Teasdale. Poem (As the Cat), William Carlos Williams. Carrie, Ted Kooser. The Story of a Drawer, James Applewhite. Popcorn-can Cover, Lorine Niedecker. Anecdote of the Jar, Wallace Stevens. On Poetic Symbols, William Butler Yeats. 13. Myth. Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost. Bavarian Gentians, D. H. Lawrence. The Oxen, Thomas Hardy. The World is Too Much with Us, William Wordsworth. Medusa, Louise Bogan. Personal Myth. The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats. Night Driving, Dick Allen. The Heaven of Animals, James Dickey. Myth and Popular Culture. Taken Up, Charles Martin. Curse of the Cat Woman, Edward Field. Imperial Adam, A. D. Hope. Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same, Robert Frost. Cinderella, Anne Sexton. On Transforming Fairy Tales, Anne Sexton. Writing Critically: Student Essay: The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s Helen. 14. Poetry and Personal Identity. Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath. The Women on My Mother's Side were Known, Julia Alvarez. Race and Ethnicity. America, Claude McKay. Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation, Rita Dove. The Shrine Whose Shape I Am, Samuel Menashe. The X in My Name, Francisco X. Alar-con. For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian, Wendy Rose. Facing It, Yusef Komunyakaa. Gender. Sous-Entendu, Anne Stevenson. The Lost Child, Lynne McMahon. Men at Forty, Donald Justice. Women, Adrienne Rich. For Review and Further Study. To Li Po, Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead, Andrew Hudgins. Quincea?era, Judith Ortiz Cofer. Well, I Have Lost You; and I Lost You Fairly, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Aubade, Philip Larkin. Discovering My Voice in English, Julia Alvarez. 15. Alternatives. Translations. Muchos Somos, Pablo Neruda. We are Many, Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid. Odes I (II), Horace. Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Michie Translations from Horace, John Frederick Nims, Rubai, Omar Khayyam. Translations from Omar Khayyam, Dick Davis. Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, Edward FitzGerald. Con Los Ojos Cerrados, Octavio Paz. With Our Eyes Shut, Octavio Paz, translated by John Felstiner. Parody. We Four Lads from Liverpool Are, Anonymous. From Strugnell's Rubaiy?t, Wendy Cope. What, Still Alive at Twenty-two? Hugh Kingsmill. The Lady Speaks Again, Bruce Bennett. Margaret Are You Drug, George Starbuck. If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent, Gene Fehler. On Translating Neruda, Alastair Reid. 16. Evaluating a Poem. Telling Good From Bad. O Moon, When I Gaze on Thy Beautiful Face, Anonymous. Life, Grace Treasone. My Wife is My Shirt, Stephen Tropp. A Dying Tiger - Moaned for Drink, Emily Dicksinson. Thoughts on Capital Punishment, Rod McKuen. Traveling Through the Dark, William Stafford. Little Libby, Julia A. Moore. On the Death of an Infant, Frederick Turner. Crib Death, Dabney Stuart. On My First Son, Terese Svoboda. A Child's Grave Marker, Ted Kooser. Reincarnation, Wallace McRae. Knowing Excellence. Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats. On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness, Arthur Guiterman. Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley. My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun, William Shakespeare. There is a Garden in Her Face, Thomas Campion. Four-Word Lines, May Swenson. O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman. Fog, Carl Sandburg. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray. The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus. Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe. 17. What Is Poetry? Catch, Robert Francis. Success is Counted Sweetest, Emily Dickinson. Wild Nights Wild Nights! I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain. I'm Nobody! Who are You? The Soul Selects Her Own Society. After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes. I Started Early Took My Dog. Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church. Tell All the Truth But Tell it Slant. Writer's Perspective: Emily Dickinson on Writing, Recognizing Poetry. The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes. Mother to Son. Weary Blues. I, Too. Song for a Dark Girl. Island. Subway Rush Hour. Sliver. Harlem, Dream Deferred. Theme for English. Writer's Perspective: Langston Hughs, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain. 18. Poems for Further Reading. Emily Dickinson. Success is Counted Sweetest. Wild Nights-Wild Nights! I felt a Funeral, in my Brain. Im Nobody! Who are you? The Soul selects her own Society. After great pain, a formal feeling comes. I started Early-Took my Dog. Because I could not stop for Death. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant. Writers Perspective Recognizing Poetry, Emily Dickinson on Writing. The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes. Mother to Son. The Weary Blues. I, Too. Song for a Dark Girl. Island. Subway Rush Hour. Sliver. Harlem. Dream Deferred Theme for English B. Writers Perspective The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain. Langston Hughes on Writing, Suggestions for Writing 19. Poems for Further Reading. Edward, Anonymous. The Three Ravens, Anonymous. The Twa Corbies, Anonymous. Western Wind, Anonymous. Last Words of the Prophet (Navajo Mountain Chant), Anonymous. Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold. At North Farm, John Ashbery. Siren Song, Margaret Atwood. As I Walked Out One Evening, W. H. Auden. Mus?e des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden. Filling Station, Elizabeth Bishop. One Art, Elizabeth Bishop. The Lamb, William Blake. The Tyger, William Blake. The Sick Rose, William Blake. The Dream, Louise Bogan. Anorexic, Eavan Boland. Love and Friendship, Emily Bronte. The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks. A Street in Bronzeville: Southeast Corner, Gwendolyn Brooks. Grief, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Robert Browning. Your yumlauten two wo l slee me sodenly, Geoffrey Chaucer. The Donkey, G. K. Chesterton. Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond, E. E. Cummings. Death be Not Proud, John Dunne. The Flea, John Donne. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne. Daystar, Rita Dove. To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, John Dryden. Journey of the Magi, T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot. Indian Boarding School: The Runaways, Louise Erdich. Birches, Robert Frost. Mending Wall, Robert Frost. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost. A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg. California Hills in August, Dana Gioia. Names of Horses, Donald Hall. The Convergence of the Twain, Thomas Hardy. During Wind and Rain, Thomas Hardy. Hap, Thomas Hardy. In Church, Thomas Hardy. Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden. The Whipping, Robert Hayden. Helen, H. D. Digging, Seamus Heaney. Mother of the Groom, Seamus Heaney. Adam, Anthony Hecht. Love, George Herbert. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Robert Herrick. The Cadence of Silk, Garrett Hongo. Spring and Fall, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Thou art Indeed Just, Lord, if I Contend, Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now, A. E. Housman. To an Athlete Dying Young, A. E. Housman. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Randall Jarrell. To the Stone-cutters, Robinson Jeffers. On My First Daughter, Ben Jonson. On My First Son, Ben Jonson. On the Death of Friends in Childhood, Donald Justice. 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, John Keats. Home is So Sad, Philip Larkin. Poetry of Departures, Philip Larkin. The Bull Calf, Irving Layton. Animals Are Passing from Our Lives, Philip Levine. My Father's Martial Art, Stephen Shu-ning Liu. Skunk Hour, Robert Lowell. The End of the World, Archibald MacLeish. To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell. Charles on Fire, James Merrill. The Farmer's Bride, Charlotte Mew. Recuerdo, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint, John Milton. When I Consider How My Light is Spent, John Milton. The Mind is an Enchanting Thing, Marianne Moore. The Master, Frederick Morgan. The War in the Air, Howard Nemerov. Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves, Lorine Niedecker. Famous, Naomi Shihab Nye. The One Girl at the Boys' Party, Sharon Olds. Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen. Ethics, Linda Pastan. Running on Empty, Robert Phillips. Daddy, Sylvia Plath. To Helen, Edgar Allan Poe. A Little Learning is a Dang'rous Thing, Alexander Pope. The Garret, Ezra Pound. The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Ezra Pound. The Starlings, Wyatt Prunty. A Different Image, Dudley Randall. Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, John Crowe Ranson Naming of Parts, Henry Reed. Speaking a Foreign Language, Alastair Reid. Peeling Onions, Adrienne Rich. Power, Adrienne Rich Miniver Cheevy, Edwin Arlington Robinson. Elegy for Jane, Theodore Roethke. Welcome to Hiroshima, Mary Jo Salter. Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments, William Shakespeare. That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold, William Shakespeare. When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes, William Shakespeare. When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue, William Shakespeare. When Icicles Hang by the Wall, William Shakespeare. Butcher Shop, Charles Simic. Titanic, David R. Slavitt. For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry, Christopher Smart. American Primitive, William Jay Smith. Disposal, W. D. Snodgrass. Stamp Collecting, Cathy Song. At the Klamath Berry Festival, William Stafford. Peter Quince at the Clavier, Wallace Stevens. The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Wallace Stevens. Second Hand Coat, Ruth Stone. A Description of the Morning, Jonathan Swift. Dark House, by Which Once More I Stand, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Ulysses, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas. Ex-Basketball Player, John Updike. Red Rooster, Yellow Sky, Amy Uyematsu. Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri, Mona Van Duyn. The Virgins, Derek Walcott. Go, Lovely Rose, Edmund Waller. A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing, Walt Whitman. The Writer, Richard Wilbur. Thinking About Bill, Dead of AIDS, Miller Williams. Spring and All, William Carlos Williams. To Waken an Old Lady, William Carlos Williams. At the San Francisco Airport, Yvor Winters. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Williams Wordsworth. A Blessing, James Wright. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio, James Wright. In This Strange Labyrinth, Mary Sidney Wroth. They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Sek, Sir Thomas Wyatt. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop, William Butler Yeats. Long-legged Fly, William Butler Yeats. The Magi, William Butler Yeats. When You Are Old, William Butler Yeats. 20. Lives of the Poets. Writing. 21. Writing about Literature. Beginning. Discovering and Planning. Drafting and Revising. The Form of Your Finished Paper. Documenting Your Sources. The Girl Writing Her English Paper, Robert Wallace. 22. Writing About a Poem. Explicating. Design, Robert Frost. Student Essay: (Explication). Analyzing. Student Essay: (Analysis). Comparing and Contrasting. Wing-Spread, Abbie Huston Evans. Student Essay: (Comparison). How to Quote a Poem. Before You Begin. Suggestions for Writing. In White (Early Draft of Design), Robert Frost. 23. Writing and Researching on the Computer. Writing and Revising. Using a Spell-Check Programs. Researching on the World Wide Web. Plagiarism. 24. Critical Approaches to Literature. Formalist Criticism. The Formalist Criticism, Cleanth Brooks. On Robert Browning's My Last Duchess, Robert Langbaum. Biographical Criticism. The Relationship of Poet and Poem, Leslie Fiedler. On Elizabeth Bishop's One Art, Brett C. Millier. Historical Criticism. Imagism, Hugh Kenner. On Langston Hughes, Daryl Pinckney. Gender Criticism. Toward a Feminist Poetics, Elaine Showalter. The Freedom of Emily Dickinson, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Psychological Criticism. The Destiny of Oedipus, Sigmund Freud. Poetic Influence, Harold Bloom. Sociological Criticism. Content Determines Form, George Lukacs. Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Kazin. Mythological Criticism. Mythic Archetypes, Northdrop Frye. Lucifer in Shakespeare's Othello, Maud Bodkin. Reader-Response Criticism. An Eskimo A Rose for Emily, Stanley Fish. How Do We Make a Poem? Robert Scholes. Deconstructionist Criticism. The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes. On Wordsworth's A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Geoffrey Hartman. Acknowledgments. Index of First Lines of Poetry. Index of Authors and Titles. Index of Literary Terms.
