Robert Herrick- To the virgins, to make much of time; George Herbert- Redemption; Robert Frost- Fire and ice; Rupert Brooke- The dead; Alfred, Lord Tennyson- Ulysses; Alastair Reid- Curiosity; Alan Dugan- Love song: I & Thou; John Donne- Hymn to God my God, in my sickness; Christina Rossetti- Uphill; Robert Frost- Dust of Snow; William Blake- Soft snow; Emily Dickinson- My life closed twice; John Donne- The sun rising; Countee Cullen- Incident; Alexander Pope- On a certain lady at court; William Blake- The chimney sweeper; Percy Bysshe Shelley- Ozymandias; John Donne- Batter my heart, three-personed God; John Frederick Nims- Love poem; Sir John Harrington- On treason; Donald W. Baker- Formal application; WH Auden- The unknown citizen; Robert Frost- Departmental; M. Carl Holman- Mr. Z; Robert Browning- My last duchess; Robert Frost- Out, Out--; William Shakespeare- From Macbeth: She should have died hereafter; EE Cummings- in Just--; John Milton- On his blindness; John Donne- Last stand; Edwin Arlington Robinson- Miniver Cheevy; William Butler Yeats- Leda and the swan; TS Eliot- Journey of the magi; Emily Dickinson- Abraham to kill him; Balshazzar had a letter; Anonymouse- In the garden; Little Jack Horner; Sara Teasdale- Barter; Robert Frost- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening; William Cullen Bryant- To a waterfowl; Robert Frost- Design; John Donne- The indifferent; Love's deity; Gerard Manley Hopkins- The caged skylark; Philip Larkin- Aubade; Archibald MacLeish- Ars Poetica; WH Davies- The villain; Emily Dickinson- Apparently with no surprise; William Butler Yeats- The coming of wisdom with time; Michael Drayton- Since there's no help; Robert Frost-The telephone; John Wakeman- Love in Brooklyn; Emily Dickinson- One dignity delays for all; 'Twas warm at first like us; Alfred, Lord Tennyson- Crossing the bar; Thomas Hardy- The oxen; John donne- The apparition; The flea; Alexander Pope- Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness; Anonymous- Love; Ogden Nash-The turtle;
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Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense
Literature; Structure, Sound, and Sense
Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced reader of poems, you can profit from this book's step-by-step method for understanding how a poem does what it does.
The Instructor's Manual contains comments on each and every poem in Sound and Sense by either Larry Perrine, Greg Johnson, or Tom Arp, or some instances, all three authors.
The classic text, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, Eighth Edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...
The new 15th edition contains over 50 new poems, a new Featured Poet (Sylvia Plath), a new poet in the Contemporary Collection (Louise Gluck), and updated MLA Style guidelines.
This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of ...