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Tables of Contents for Poetry for Students
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Guest Foreword ``Just a Few Lines on a Page''
x
David J. Kelly
Introduction
xii
Literary Chronology
xv
Acknowledgments
xvii
Contributors
xix
An African Elegy
1
12
Robert Duncan
Author Biography
2
1
Poem Text
3
1
Poem Summary
4
2
Themes
6
1
Style
7
1
Historical Context
7
1
Critical Overview
8
1
Criticism
9
4
Birches
13
20
Robert Frost
Author Biography
14
1
Poem Text
14
1
Poem Summary
15
2
Themes
17
1
Style
18
1
Historical Context
18
1
Critical Overview
19
1
Criticism
20
13
Blood Oranges
33
16
Lisel Mueller
Author Biography
34
1
Poem Text
34
1
Poem Summary
34
3
Themes
37
1
Style
38
1
Historical Context
39
1
Critical Overview
40
1
Criticism
41
8
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
49
16
Walt Whitman
Author Biography
50
1
Poem Text
50
1
Poem Summary
50
2
Themes
52
1
Style
53
1
Historical Context
54
2
Critical Overview
56
1
Criticism
56
9
The Conquerors
65
17
Phyllis McGinley
Author Biography
66
1
Poem Text
67
1
Poem Summary
67
2
Themes
69
1
Style
70
1
Historical Context
71
2
Critical Overview
73
1
Criticism
74
8
Darwin in 1881
82
18
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Author Biography
83
1
Poem Text
83
1
Poem Summary
84
3
Themes
87
1
Style
88
1
Historical Context
89
1
Critical Overview
90
1
Criticism
91
9
Daylights
100
11
Rosanna Warren
Author Biography
101
1
Poem Text
101
1
Poem Summary
102
1
Themes
103
1
Style
103
1
Historical Context
104
1
Critical Overview
105
1
Criticism
105
6
For the White poets who would be Indian
111
24
Wendy Rose
Author Biography
112
1
Poem Text
112
1
Poem Summary
112
2
Themes
114
2
Style
116
1
Historical Context
116
2
Critical Overview
118
1
Criticism
118
17
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
135
15
Emily Dickinson
Author Biography
136
1
Poem Text
137
1
Poem Summary
137
1
Themes
138
1
Style
139
1
Historical Context
140
1
Critical Overview
141
1
Criticism
142
8
i was sitting in mcsorley's
150
12
e. e. cummings
Author Biography
151
1
Poem Text
151
1
Poem Summary
152
1
Themes
153
1
Style
154
1
Historical Context
155
1
Critical Overview
156
1
Criticism
156
6
The Idea of Order at Key West
162
18
Wallace Stevens
Author Biography
163
1
Poem Text
164
1
Poem Summary
164
3
Themes
167
1
Style
168
1
Historical Context
169
1
Critical Overview
170
1
Criticism
171
9
Leda and the Swan
180
14
William Butler Yeats
Author Biography
181
1
Poem Text
181
1
Poem Summary
182
1
Themes
183
2
Style
185
1
Historical Context
186
2
Critical Overview
188
1
Criticism
189
5
The Song of the Smoke
194
17
W. E. B. Du Bois
Author Biography
195
1
Poem Text
196
1
Poem Summary
197
3
Themes
200
1
Style
201
1
Historical Context
202
2
Critical Overview
204
1
Criticism
205
6
To His Excellency General Washington
211
14
Phillis Wheatley
Author Biography
212
1
Poem Text
212
1
Poem Summary
213
1
Themes
214
1
Style
215
1
Historical Context
216
1
Critical Overview
217
1
Criticism
218
7
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
225
14
Robert Herrick
Author Biography
226
1
Poem Text
226
1
Poem Summary
226
1
Themes
227
1
Style
228
1
Historical Context
228
2
Critical Overview
230
1
Criticism
230
9
We Live by What We See at Night
239
12
Martin Espada
Author Biography
239
1
Poem Text
240
1
Poem Summary
240
1
Themes
241
2
Style
243
1
Historical Context
243
1
Critical Overview
244
1
Criticism
245
6
Glossary
251
20
Cumulative Author/Title Index
271
6
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index
277
4
Subject/Theme Index
281
6
Cumulative Index of First Lines
287
6
Cumulative Index of Last Lines
293