Part One  Elements of Poetry

       Unit One  Meter and Rhythm

          The Pasture

          Annabel Lee

          A Psalm of Life

          We Real Cool

       Unit Two  Stanza and Rhyme

          The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

          I Died for Beauty

          Ars Poetiea

          The Windhover

       Unit Three  Speaker and Tone

          Still I Rise

          A Far Cry from Africa

          The Song of Wandering Aengus

          Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?

       Unit Four  Figurative Language

          A Birthday

          All the World' s a Stage

          A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

          Cynara

       Unit Five  Image and Symbol

          Cavalry Crossing a Ford

          In a Station of the Metro

          Anecdote of the Jar

          The Second Coming

Part Two  Types of Poetry

       Unit Six Ballad

          A Red, Red Rose

          The Last Rose of Summer

          Boots of Spanish Leather

          Ballad of Birmingham

       Unit Seven  Ode

          Ode to the West Wind

       Unit Eight  Sonnet

          Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

          How Do I Love Thee?

          America  

          Why Brownlee Left

       Unit Nine  Free Verse

          I Hear America Singing

          Chicago

          The Red Wheelbarrow

          The Negro Speaks of Rivers

       Unit Ten  Shaped Verse

          40--Love

          The Window

          Swan and Shadow

Part Three  Themes of Poetry

       Unit Eleven  Friendship

          When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes

          The Arrow and the Song

          Break, Break, Break

          In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz

       Unit Twelve  Love

          Love' s Philosophy

          The Soul Selects Her Own Society

          When You Are Old

          Permanently

       Unit Thirteen  Life

          Dreams  

          The Road Not Taken

          Sea-Fever  

          Success Is Counted Sweetest

       Unit Fourteen  Nature

          Spring

          I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

          On the Grasshopper and Cricket

          The Lake Isle of Innisfree

       Unit Fifteen  Death  

          Because I Could Not Stop for Death

          When I Am Dead, My Dearest

          Requiem

          Mid-Term Break

       Unit Sixteen  Patriotism

          My Heart's in the Highlands

          I Travelled among Unknown Men

          My Grave

          The Gift Outright

Part Four  Enjoying More English Poems

       George Herbert ( 1593-1633 )

          The Altar

       William Wordsworth ( 1770-1850 )

          The Solitary Reaper

       Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

          The Harp That Once Through Tara' s Halls

       Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

         Ozymandias

       Walt Whitman (181%1892)

          1 Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

          A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

       Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

          My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close

          If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

       Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

          In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"  

       Katharine Tynan ( 1861-1931 )

          Not Lovers Then

          Any Woman

       William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 )

          The Stolen Child

          The Mask  

       Robert Frost ( 1874-1963 )

          Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

          Birches

       Thomas Stearns Eliot ( 1888-1965 )

          The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

       E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

          Love Is More Thicker Than Forget

       Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

          In Memory of W. B. Yeats

       R. S. Thomas (1913-2000)  

          Welsh Landscape

       Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

          Skunk Hour

       Donald Justice (b. 1925)  

          Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy

       James K. Baxter (1926-1972)

          New Zealand

       Ted HughesBZ ( 1930-1998 )

          Hawk Roosting