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Table of Contents
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FICTION
1. READING A STORY
Fable, Parable, and Tales
W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra
* Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun
Bidpai, The Camel and His Friends
Chuang Tzu, Independence
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death
Plot
The Short Story
John Updike, A & P
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
John Updike, Why Write?
Writing About Plot
Paying Attention to Plot
Checklist: Analyzing Plot
Writing Assignment on Plot
More Topics For Writing
2. POINT OF VIEW
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
* Anne Tyler, Teenage Wasteland
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
* Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
James Baldwin, Race and the African American Writer
Writing About Point of View
How Point of View Shapes a Story
Checklist: Understanding Point of View
Writing Assignment on Point of View
More Topics for Writing
3. CHARACTER
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
* Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Raymond Carver, Commonplace but Precise Language
Writing About Character
How Character Creates Action
Checklist: Writing About Character
Writing Assignment on Character
More Topics For Writing
4. SETTING
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Jack London, To Build a Fire
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake
Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Amy Tan, Setting the Voice
Writing About Setting
The Importance of Setting
Checklist: Analyzing Setting
Writing Assignment on Setting
More Topics For Writing
5. TONE AND STYLE
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
Irony
* O. Henry, Gift of the Magi
Ha Jin, Saboteur
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Ernest Hemingway, The Direct Style
Writing About Tone and Style
Be Style Conscious
Checklist: Thinking about Style and Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone and Style
More Topics For Writing
6. THEME
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
* Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband
Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Themes of Science Fiction
Writing About Theme
Stating the Theme
Checklist: Determining a Story’s Theme
Writing Assignment on Theme
More Topics For Writing
7. SYMBOL
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Elizabeth Tallent, No One’s a Mystery
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* Shirley Jackson, Reactions to "The Lottery"
Writing About Symbols
Recognizing Symbols
Checklist: Thinking about Symbols
Writing Assignment on Symbols
Student Essay, An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums"
More Topics For Writing
8. EVALUATING A STORY
* Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* Yiyun Li, “What I Could Not Write about Was Why I Was Writing”
Writing An Evaluation
Judging a Story’s Value
Checklist: Evaluating Fiction
Writing Assignment on Evauating Fiction
More Topics for Writing
9. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Franz Kafka, Discussing The Metamorphosis
Writing About Long Stories and Novels
Know What to Leave Out
Checklist: Wrting About a Long Story or Novel
Writing Assignment on Long Works of Fiction
Student Essay, Kafka's Greatness
More Topics for Writing
10. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor, Revelation
* Flannery O'Connor, Parker’s Back
Flannery O'Connor on Writing
Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “On Her Own Work”: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Flannery O'Connor, On Her Catholic Faith
Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction”: The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader
Flannery O'Connor, Yearbook Cartoons
Critics on Flannery O'Connor
Robert Brinkmeyer Jr., Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers
J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not so Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit
Mary Jane Schenck, Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
* Kathleen Feeley, The Mystery of Divine Direction: “Parker’s Back”
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writing About an Author
How One Story Illuminates Another
Checklist: Reading an Author in Depth
Writing Assignment on an Author
More Topics For Writing
11. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: 3 Stories in Depth
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe on Writing
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tale and Its Effect
Edgar Allan Poe, On Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
Critics on “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart”
* Scott Peeples, “The Tell-Tale Heart” as a Love Story
* John Chua, The Figure of the Double in Poe
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Writing
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Whatever Is
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Nervous Breakdown of Women
Critics on “Yellow Wallpaper”
Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
* Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement
* Elizabeth Ammons, Biographical Echoes in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Alice Walker on Writing
* Black Women Writers in America, Interview by John O’Brien
* Alice Walker: “I Know What the Earth Says, ” Interview by William R. Ferris
Critics on “Everyday Use”
Barbara T. Christian, “Everyday Use” and the Black Power Movement
* Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Stylish vs. Sacred in “Everyday Use”
* Elaine Showalter, Quilt as Metaphor in “Everyday Use”
12. STORIES FOR FURTHER READING
Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path
Anjana Appachana, The Prophecy
Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark
Willa Cather, Paul's Case
John Cheever, The Five-Forty-Eight
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street.
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
* Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the Bright Side
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper
James Joyce, Araby
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
* Octavio Paz, My Life with the Wave
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
* Helena María Viramontes, The Moths
POETRY
13. READING A POEM
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Lyric Poetry
D. H. Lawrence, Piano
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Narrative Poetry
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence
Robert Frost, “Out, Out—”
Dramatic Poetry
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Adrienne Rich, Recalling "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Writing a Paraphrase
Can a Poem be Paraphrased?
William Stafford, Ask Me
William Stafford, A Paraphrase of "Ask Me"
Checklist: Paraphrasing a Poem
Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing
More Topics for Writing
14. LISTENING TO A VOICE
Tone
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter
Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, To the Desert
Weldon Kees, For My Daughter
The Person in the Poem
Natasha Trethewey, White Lies
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting
* Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry
James Stephens, A Glass of Beer
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Irony
Robert Creeley, Oh No
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage
John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey
Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links
* Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig
* Joseph Stroud, Missing
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
For Review and Further Study
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
* David Lehman, Rejection Slip
William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
H. L. Hix, I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Wilfred Owen, War Poetry
Writing About Voice
Listening to Tone
Checklist: Analyzing Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone
Student Essay, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
More Topics for Writing
15. WORDS
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say
Marianne Moore, Silence
Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down!
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You
The Value of a Dictionary
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
John Clare, Mouse’s Nest
J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Kelly Cherry, Advice to a Friend Who Paints
Carl Sandburg, Grass
Word Choice and Word Order
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes
Kay Ryan, Blandeur
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts
For Review and Further Study
E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town
Billy Collins, The Names
Anonymous, Carnation Milk
* Kenneth Rexroth, Vitamins and Roughage
* Gina Valdes, English con Salsa
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates "Jabberwocky"
Writing About Diction
Every Word Counts
Checklist: Thinking About Word Choice
Writing Assignment on Word Choice
More Topics for Writing
16. SAYING AND SUGGESTING
John Masefield, Cargoes
William Blake, London
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
* Gwendolyn Brooks, Southeast Corner
Timothy Steele, Epitaph
* E. E. Cummings, next to of course to god america i
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
Clare Rossini, Final Love Note
* Jennifer Reeser, Winter-proof
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Richard Wilbur, Concerning "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Writing About Denotation and Connotation
The Ways a Poem Suggests
Checklist: Analyzing What a Poem Says and Suggests
Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation
More Topics for Writing
17. IMAGERY
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel
T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Anne Stevenson, The Victory
Charles Simic, Fork
Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
About Haiku
Arakida Moritake, The falling flower
Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak
Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool
Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell
Taniguchi Buson, I go
Kobayashi Issa, only one guy
Kobayashi Issa, Cricket
Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps
Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountain
Neiji Ozawa, War forced us from California
Hakuro Wada, Even the croaking of frogs
Contemporary American Haiku
Etheridge Knight, Lee Gurga, Penny Harter, John Ridland, * Garry Gay, Adelle Foley, Jennifer Brutschy, Connie Bensley, A Selection of Haiku
For Review and Further Study
John Keats, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
T. C. Hulme, The Image
Walt Whitman, The Runner
* William Carlos Williams, El Hombre
Chana Bloch, Tired Sex
Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
* Rita Dove, Silos
Louise Glück, Mock Orange
Billy Collins, Embrace
John Haines, Winter News
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Ezra Pound, The Image
Writing About Imagery
Analyzing Images
Checklist: Thinking About Imagery
Writing Assignment on Imagery
Student Essay, Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in "The Fish"
More Topics for Writing
18. FIGURES OF SPEECH
Why Speak Figuratively?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Metaphor and Simile
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
N. Scott Momaday, Simile
Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low – in my Regard
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Other Figures
James Stephens, The Wind
Margaret Atwood, You fit into me
John Ashbery, The Cathedral Is
George Herbert, The Pulley
* Dana Gioia, Money
* Charles Simic, My Shoes
For Review and Further Study
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent
* April Lindner, Low Tide
Jane Kenyon, The Suitor
Robert Frost, The Secret Sits
A. R. Ammons, Coward
Kay Ryan, Turtle
* Heather McHugh, Language Lesson, 1976
Robinson Jeffers, Hands
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Robert Frost, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
Writing About Metaphors
How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning
Checklist: Analyzing Metaphor
Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech
More Topics for Writing
19. SONG
Singing and Saying
Ben Jonson, To Celia
Anonymous, The Cruel Mother
* William Shakespeare, O Mistress Mine
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Paul Simon, Richard Cory
Ballads
Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Blues
Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams, Jailhouse Blues
W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
Rap
Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper
For Review and Further Study
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby
Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin'
* Aimee Mann, Deathly
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Paul McCartney, Creating "Eleanor Rigby"
Writing About Song Lyrics
Poetry’s Close Kinship with Song
Checklist: Looking at Lyrics as Poetry
Writing Assignment on Song Lyrics
More Topics for Writing
20. SOUND
Sound as Meaning
Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?
John Updike, Recital
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Emanuel di Pasquale, Rain
Aphra Behn, When Maidens Are Young
Alliteration and Assonance
A. E. Housman, Eight O’Clock
* James Joyce, All Day I Hear
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls
Rime
William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga
James Reeves, Rough Weather
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus
* Ogden Nash, The Panther
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur
Fred Chappell, Narcissus and Echo
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Reading and Hearing Poems Aloud
Michael Stillman, In Memoriam John Coltrane
William Shakespeare, Full fathom five thy father lies
Chryss Yost, Lai with Sounds of Skin
T. S. Eliot, Virginia
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
T. S. Eliot, The Music of Poetry
Writing About Sound
Listen to the Music
Checklist: Writing About a Poem’s Sound
Writing Assignment on Sound
More Topics for Writing
21. RHYTHM
Stresses and Pauses
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
Ben Jonson, Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears
Sir Thomas Wyatt, With serving still
Dorothy Parker, Résumé
Meter
Max Beerbohm, On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm
Thomas Campion, Rose-cheeked Laura, come
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Counting-out Rhyme
* Jacqueline Osherow, Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
* William Carlos Williams, Smell!
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
David Mason, Song of the Powers
Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Gwendolyn Brooks, Hearing "We Real Cool"
Writing About Rhythm
Freeze-Framing the Sound
Checklist: Scanning a Poem
Writing Assignment on Rhythm
More Topics for Writing
22. CLOSED FORM
Formal Patterns
John Keats, This living hand, now warm and capable
Robert Graves, Counting the Beats
John Donne, Song (“Go and catch a falling star”)
Phillis Levin, Brief Bio
The Sonnet
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Michael Drayton, Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You
* Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: Hands Folded
Timothy Steele, Summer
A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non
* R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet
The Epigram
Alexander Pope, Sir John Harrington, Robert Herrick, William Blake, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, J. V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Stevie Smith, Brad Leithauser, Dick Davis, Anonymous, Hilaire Belloc, Wendy Cope, A selection of epigrams
W. H. Auden, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius Ter Maat, Clerihews
Other Forms
Robert Pinsky, ABC
Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night
Robert Bridges, Triolet
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* A. E. Stallings, On Form and Artifice
Writing About Form
Turning Points
Checklist: Thinking About a Sonnet
Writing Assignment on a Sonnet
More Topics for Writing
23. OPEN FORM
Denise Levertov, Ancient Stairway
E. E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill ’s
W. S. Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death
William Carlos Williams, The Dance
Stephen Crane, The Heart
Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford
* Ezra Pound, Salutation
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Prose Poetry
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel
* Charles Simic, The Magic Study of Happiness
Visual Poetry
George Herbert, Easter Wings
John Hollander, Swan and Shadow
Terry Ehret, from Papyrus
Dorthi Charles, Concrete Cat
Found Poetry
Ronald Gross, Yield
Seeing the Logic of Open Form Verse
E. E. Cummings, in Just-
Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails Red
* Alice Fulton, Failure
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Walt Whitman, The Poetry of the Future
Writing About Free Verse
Lining Up for Free Verse
Checklist: Analyzing Line Breaks in Free Verse
Writing Assignment on Open Form
More Topics for Writing
24. SYMBOL
T. S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript
Emily Dickinson, The Lightning is a yellow Fork
Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones
Matthew 13:24-30, The Parable of the Good Seed
George Herbert, The World
* Edwin Markham, Outwitted
* John Ciardi, A Box Comes Home
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Christina Rossetti, Uphill
* Christian Wiman, Postolka
For Review and Further Study
William Carlos Williams, The Term
Ted Kooser, Carrie
* Jane Hirshfield, Tree
Jon Stallworthy, An Evening Walk
Lorine Niedecker, Popcorn-can cover
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
William Butler Yeats, Poetic Symbols
Writing About Symbols
Reading a Symbol
Checklist: Analyzing a Symbol
Writing Assignment on Symbolism
More Topics for Writing
25. MYTH
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
D. H. Lawrence, Bavarian Gentians
William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us
H. D., Helen
Archetype
Louise Bogan, Medusa
* John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Personal Myth
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
* Gregory Orr, Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm
Diane Thiel, Memento Mori in Middle School
Myth and Popular Culture
Charles Martin, Taken Up
* Andrea Hollander Budy, Snow White
Anne Sexton, Cinderella
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Anne Sexton, Transforming Fairy Tales
Writing About Myth
Demystifying Myth
Checklist: Thinking About Myth
Writing Assignment on Myth
Student Essay, The Bonds Between Love and Hatred in H. D.'s "Helen"
More Topics for Writing
26. POETRY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
Rhina Espaillat, Bilingual / Bilingüe
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
Claude McKay, America
Samuel Menashe, The Shrine Whose Shape I Am
Francisco X. Alarcón, The X in My Name
* Amy Uyematsu, Deliberate
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceañera
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
Gender
Anne Stevenson, Sous-Entendu
Emily Grosholz, Listening
Donald Justice, Men at Forty
Adrienne Rich, Women
For Review and Further Study
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to love America
Andrew Hudgins, Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead
Alastair Reid, Speaking a Foreign Language
Philip Larkin, Aubade
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Rhina Espaillat, Being a Bilingual Writer
Writing About the Poetry of Personal Identity
Poetic Voice and Personal Identity
Checklist: Writing About Voice and Personal Identity
Writing Assignment on Personal Identity
More Topics for Writing
27. TRANSLATION
Is Poetic Translation Possible?
World Poetry
Li Po, Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (Chinese text)
Li Po, Moon-beneath Alone Drink (literal translation)
Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley, Drinking Alone by Moonlight
Comparing Translations
Horace, “Carpe Diem” Ode (Latin text)
Horace, “Carpe Diem” Ode (literal translation)
Horace, translated by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Horace to Leuconoe
Horace, translated by James Michie, Don’t Ask
Horace, translated by A. E. Stallings, A New Year’s Toast
Omar Khayyam, Rubai (Persian text)
Omar Khayyam, Rubai (literal translation)
Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
Omar Khayyam, translated by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, Our Day’s Portion
Omar Khayyam, translated by Dick Davis, I Need a Bare Sufficiency
Parody
Anonymous, We four lads from Liverpool are
Wendy Cope, From Strugnell’s Rubaiyat
Hugh Kingsmill, What, still alive at twenty-two?
Bruce Bennett, The Lady Speaks Again
Gene Fehler, If Richard Lovelace Became a Free Agent
Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Arthur Waley, The Method of Translation
Writing a Parody
Parody Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Checklist: Writing a Parody
Writing Assignment on Parody
More Topics for Writing
28. Poetry in Spanish: Literature of Latin America
Sor Juana
Asegura la Confianza de que Oculturá de todo un Secreto
Translated by Diane Thiel, She Promises to Hold a Secret in Confidence
Presente en que el Cariño Hace Regalo la Llaneza
Translated by Diane Thiel, A Simple Gift Made Rich by Affection
Pablo Neruda
Muchos Somos
Translated by Alastair Reid, We Are Many
Cien Sonetos de Amor (V)
Translated by Stephen Tapscott, One Hundred Love Sonnets (V)
Jorge Luis Borges
Amorosa Anticipación
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Anticipation of Love
Los Engimas
Translated by John Updike, The Enigmas
Octavio Paz
Con los Ojos Cerrados
Translated by Eliot Weinberger, With Our Eyes Shut
Certeza
Translated by Charles Tomlinson, Certainty
Surrealism in Latin American Poetry
Frida Kahlo, Two Friedas
César Vallejo, La Cólera que Quiebra al Hombre en Niños
César Vallejo, translated by Thomas Merton, Anger
Contemporary Mexican Poets
José Emilio Pacheco, Alta Traición
José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Alastair Reid, High Treason
* Francisco Hernández, Bajo Cero
* Francisco Hernández, translated by Carolyn Forché, Below Zero
* Tedi López Mills, Convalecencia
* Tedi López Mills, Convalescence
Writers on Writing
Octavio Paz, In Search of the Present
Writers on Translating
Alastair Reid, Translating Neruda
Writing Assignment on Spanish Poetry
More Topics for Writing
29. RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE
Anonymous, O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Grace Treasone, Life
Emily Dickinson, A Dying Tiger – moaned for Drink
Rod McKuen, Thoughts on Capital Punishment
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Wallace McRae, Reincarnation
Recognizing Excellence
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
Arthur Guiterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Robert Hayden, The Whipping
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939
Evaluating Famous Poems
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
* Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Edgar Allan Poe, A Long Poem Does Not Exist
Writing an Evaluation
You Be the Judge
Checklist: Evaluating a Poem
Writing Assignment on Evaluating a Poem
More Topics for Writing
30. WHAT IS POETRY?
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica
Dante, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, J. V. Cunningham, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, William Stafford, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Bly, Some Definitions of Poetry
Ha Jin, Missed Time
31. TWO CRITICAL CASEBOOKS: EMILY DICKINSON AND LANGSTON HUGHES
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest
* I taste a liquor never brewed
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
* I Dwell in Possibility
The Soul selects her own Society
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
This is my letter to the World
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died
I started Early – Took my Dog
Because I could not stop for Death
The Bustle in a House
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Recognizing Poetry
Emily Dickinson, Self-Description
Critics on Emily Dickinson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Meeting Emily Dickinson
Thomas H. Johnson, The Discovery of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts
Richard Wilbur, The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson
Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Dickinson and Death (A Reading of “Because I could not stop for Death”)
Judith Farr, A Reading of “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”
Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
Dream Variations
I, Too
The Weary Blues
Song for a Dark Girl
Prayer
End
* Ku Klux
Ballad of the Landlord
Theme for English B
Subway Rush Hour
Sliver
* As Befits a Man
Harlem [Dream Deferred]
Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes, The Harlem Renaissance
Critics on Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad, Hughes as an Experimentalist
Rita Dove and Marilyn Nelson, Langston Hughes and Harlem
Darryl Pinckney, Black Identity in Langston Hughes
Peter Townsend, Langston Hughes and Jazz
Onwuchekwa Jemie, A Reading of "Dream Deferred"
For Further Reading
Topics for Writing
32. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: T. S. ELIOT’S “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK”
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Publishing “Prufrock”
* Ezra Pound, Letters to Harriet Monroe on “Prufrock”
The Reviewers on Prufrock and Other Observations: 1917-1918
* Unsigned, Review from Times Literary Supplement
* Unsigned, Review from Literary World
* Unsigned, Review from New Statesman
* Conrad Aiken, Divers Realists
* Babette Deutsch, Another Impressionist
* Marianne Moore, A Note on T. S. Eliot’s Book
* May Sinclair, Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism
T. S. Eliot on Writing
* T. S. Eliot, Poetry and Emotion
* T. S. Eliot, The Objective Correlative
* T. S. Eliot, The Difficulty of Poetry
Critics on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
* Christopher Ricks, What’s in a Name?
* Philip R. Headings, The Pronouns in the Poem: “One,” “You,” and “I”
* Maud Ellmann, Will There Be Time?
* Denis Donoghue, One of the Irrefutable Poets
* Burton Raffel, “Indeterminacy” in Eliot’s Poetry
* John Berryman, Prufrock’s Dilemma
* M. L. Rosenthal, from “Adolescents Singing
Topics for Writing
33. POEMS FOR FURTHER READING
Anonymous, Lord Randall
Anonymous, The Three Ravens
Anonymous, The Twa Corbies
Anonymous, Last Words of the Prophet (Navajo Mountain Chant)
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
John Ashbery, At North Farm
* Margaret Atwood, Siren Song
W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening
W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station
William Blake, The Tyger
William Blake, The Sick Rose
Eavan Boland, Anorexic
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks, the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Geoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty
G. K. Chesterton, The Donkey
Lucille Clifton, Homage to my hips
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Billy Collins, Care and Feeding
Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters
E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
* Marisa de los Santos, Perfect Dress
John Donne, Death be not proud
John Donne, The Flea
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi
Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
B. H. Fairchild, A Starlit Night
Robert Frost, Birches
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats
Donald Hall, Names of Horses
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy, Hap
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Seamus Heaney, Digging
Anthony Hecht, Adam
George Herbert, Love
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall
Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Robinson Jeffers, To the Stone-cutters
Ben Jonson, On My First Son
* Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be
John Keats, To Autumn
* Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse
Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad
Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures
Irving Layton, The Bull Calf
* Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage
Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion
* Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Riding into California
Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo
John Milton, How soon hath time
John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent
Marianne Moore, Poetry
Frederick Morgan, The Master
Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman
Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air
* Lorine Niedecker, Poet’s Work
Yone Noguchi, A Selection of Hokku
Sharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Linda Pastan, Ethics
Robert Phillips, Running on Empty
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream within a Dream
Alexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter
Dudley Randall, A Different Image
John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane
Mary Jo Salter, Welcome to Hiroshima
William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded monuments
William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold
William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Louis Simpson, American Poetry
David R. Slavitt, Titanic
Christopher Smart, For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry
William Jay Smith, American Primitive
Cathy Song, Stamp Collecting
William Stafford, The Farm on the Great Plains
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning
* Larissa Szporluk, Vertigo
Sara Teasdale, The Flight
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dark house, by which once more I stand
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player
Derek Walcott, The Virgins
Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose
* Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing
Richard Wilbur, The Writer
C. K. Williams, Elms
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
William Carlos Williams, To Waken an Old Lady
William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
James Wright, A Blessing
James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Mary Sidney Wroth, In This Strange Labyrinth
Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me that sometime did me sekë
William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
William Butler Yeats, The Magi
William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old
* Bernice Zamora, Penitents
34. LIVES OF THE POETS
DRAMA
35. READING A PLAY
A Play in Its Elements
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Susan Glaspell, Creating Trifles
Writing About Conflict
Conflict Resolution
Checklist: Analyzing Conflict
Writing Assignment on Conflict
Student Essay, Outside Trifles
More Topics for Writing
36. MODES OF DRAMA: TRAGEDY & COMEDY
Tragedy
* Christopher Marlowe, A Scene from Doctor Faustus (in which Faustus sells his soul to the devil; Act 2, Scene 1)
Comedy
David Ives, Sure Thing
Jane Martin, Beauty
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* David Ives, On the One-Act Play
Writing About Comedy
Getting Serious About Comedy
Checklist:Writing About a Comedy
Writing Assignment on Comedy
More Topics for Writing
37. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: SOPHOCLES
The Theater of Sophocles
Staging
The Civic Role of Greek Drama
Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy
The Origins of Oedipus the King
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)
The Background of Antigonê
Sophocles, Antigonê (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)
Critics on Sophocles
Aristotle, Defining Tragedy
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