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Tables of Contents for Poetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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