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7 Figures of Speech 52
Fawziyya Abu Khalid: Butterfl ies 53
Nazik Al-Mala’ika: Elegy for a Woman of No
Importance 56
8 Structure 59
Pablo Neruda: To the Foot from Its Child
59
9 Theme 64
Emily Dickinson: Crumbling Is Not an Instant’s Act 65
Part 3 Understanding Poetry 68
1 Qualifying a Group of Lines as Poetry68
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 73 68
Louis Zukofsky: I Walk in the Old Street
70
2 Active Reading Strategies73
3 The Experience of Poetry 74
Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays 74
4 The Interpretation of Poetry 76
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 78
5 The Evaluation of Poetry 81
Judith Wright: Rainforest 83
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading86
Alexander Pushkin: If by Life You Were Deceived
86
Fedor Tyutchev: Silentium! 86
Sergei Yesenin: Scarlet Light of Sunset
88
Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen 89
William Wordsworth: To a Butterfl y 91
Léopold Sédar Senghor: Night of
Sine 95
Fernando Pessoa: In the Terrible Night
97
Barbara Barnard: Disguises 100
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 102
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Unit Two Diction in Poetry
Part 1 Word Choice and Word Order 104
1 Poetic Diction 104
2 Denotative and Connotative Meanings 104
Judith Ortiz Cofer: My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory 105
3 Levels of Diction 107
Margaret Atwood: The City Planners 108
Wanda Coleman: Sears Life 111
4 Word Choice 113
Walt Whitman: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 114
5 Word Order 117
E E Cummings: Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
119
Part 2 Voice: Speaker and Tone 123
1 The Speaker in the Poem 123
Emily Dickinson: I’m Nobody! Who Are You? 123
William Blake: The Chimney Sweeper 124
William Carlos Williams: Red Wheelbarrow
126
Langston Hughes: Negro 129
2 The Tone of the Poem 131
Robert Frost: Fire and Ice 132
Ruth Fainlight: Flower Feet 133
Stephen Crane: War Is Kind 135
Part 3 Imagery and Figures of Speech 137
1 Imagery: Descriptive Language 137
John Keats: from The Eve of St Agnes 137
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
139
William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 141
Andrew Marvell: The Defi nition of Love
143
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dark House 146
Suzanne Berger: The Meal 148
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2 Imagery: Figurative Language 149
George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
150
Langston Hughes: Harlem 153
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Constantly Risking Absurdity 154
Marge Piercy: The Secretary Chant 158
Thosmas Campion: There Is a Garden in Her Face
159
Edmund Waller: Go, Lovely Rose 161
Linda Hogan: from The Truth Is 163
Carl Sandburg: Chicago 166
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading169
Bei Dao: A Bouquet 169
Christina Rossetti: from Goblin Market
170
William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 172
W H Auden: Their Lonely Betters 174
Sylvia Plath: Mirror 176
Sylvia Plath: Metaphors 178
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 180
Unit Three Themes in Poetry
Part 1 Theme and Meaning 182
1 Determining a Poem’s Theme 182
Adrienne Rich: A Woman Mourned by Daughters
183
James Shirley: Death the Leveler 185
Ben Jonson: Song: To Celia 187
John Donne: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star
189
William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 193
2 Pathways to Meaning—Four Types of Irony 194
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est 195
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias 199
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art 201
Part 2 Symbol and Allegory 204
1 Symbolism 204
Anonymous: Psalm 23 205
William Blake: The Sick Rose 206
Robert Frost: For Once, Then, Something
208
2 Allegory 209
Christina Rossetti: Uphill 210
George Herbert: Virtue 211
Part 3 Allusion and Myth 213
1 Allusion 213
William Meredith: Dreams of Suicide 213
Eduardo Langagne: Discoveries 215
2 Myth 217
Countee Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel 217
Marilyn Hacker: Mythology 218
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading221
Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences 221
Paul Verlaine: Moonlight 224
Guillaume Apollinaire: Mirabeau Bridge
225
Edith S?dergran: Gather Not Gold and Precious Stones 228
William Blake: Ah, Sunfl ower 229
William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
230
William Butler Yeats: Leda and the Swan
233
Wallace Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar 236
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 240
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Unit Four Forms of Poetry (I)
Part 1 Types of Poetry 242
1 Narrative Poetry 242
2 Lyric Poetry 243
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn 244
Philip Larkin: Aubade 249
Elizabeth Alexander: Praise Song for the Day
253
John Ashbery: Vetiver 257
Ben Jonson: On My First Son 260
Part 2 Rhythm and Meter262
1 Metrical Patterns 262
Emily Dickinson: I Like to See It Lap the Miles— 264
Emily Brontё: The Night Is Darkening Round Me 266
Edward Lear: Calico Pie 268
2 Caesura and Line Breaks 271
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 272
John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
275
Theodore Roethke: My Papa’s Waltz 280
Part 3 Closed Form (I)283
1 Blank Verse 283
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses 284
2 The Couplet 289
Alexander Pope: from Epistle II of An Essay on Man 290
3 The Tercet 293
Matsuo Bashō: Haiku
293
Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi’s 295
4 The Quatrain 300
Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 301
5 The Ballad Stanza 303
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Anonymous: Bonny Barbara Allan 303
6 The Common Measure307
Donald Hall: My Son, My Executioner 307
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading310
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To the Moon
310
Friedrich H?lderlin: The Neckar 313
Heinrich Heine: The Lorelei 316
Horace: To Licinius 318
Ben Jonson: To Heaven 321
William Butler Yeats: When You Are Old
323
Gabriela Mistral: Richness 325
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 327
Unit Five Forms of Poetry (II)
Part 1 Closed Form (II)330
1 Rhyme Royal 330
Theodore Roethke: I Knew a Woman 330
2 Ottava Rima 333
William Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
334
3 The Spenserian Stanza 337
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Apostrophe to the Ocean 338
4 The Sestina 342
Elizabeth Bishop: Sestina 342
5 The Villanelle 345
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 345
Part 2 Closed Form (III): The Sonnet 348
1 The Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet 348
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Petrarch: Sonnet 90 (Laura) 349
2 The English or Shakespearean Sonnet 352
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 352
3 The Spenserian Sonnet 356
Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 30 356
Part 3 Open Form 359
1 Open Form and Poetic License 359
Leslie Marmon Silko: Prayer to the Pacifi c
362
2 Conventional Techniques in the Open Form Poem 365
Dudley Randall: A Poet Is Not a Jukebox
366
3 Walt Whitman’s Long-lasting Influence 370
Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself 371
Nazik al-Mala’ika: Love Song for Words 376
4 Prose Poetry 378
Shuntarō Tanikawa: A Personal Opinion About Gray 379
5 Visual Poetry 381
E E Cummings: Buffalo Bill’s 383
George Herbert: Easter Wings 385
Part 4 Poems for Further Reading387
Giacomo Leopardi: The Infi nite 387
Dino Campana: Genoa Woman 388
Salvatore Quasimodo: Only if Love Should Pierce You 390
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Silent Noon 391
Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox 393
Marianne Moore: Poetry 396
Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California
398
Jaime Torres Bodet: The Window 401
Part 5 Writing About Poetry 403
Bibliography 404