A Simile for Her Smile
Poetry 585
11 Approaching Poetry: Responding in Writing 587 Langston Hughes, Harlem 587
Thinking About Harlem 588 Some Journal Entries 589 Student Essay: Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” 591 Aphra Behn, Song: Love Armed 594
Journal Entries 594 Student Essay: The Double Nature of Love 595
12 Narrative Poetry 598 The Limerick, the Popular Ballad, and Other Narrative Poems
598 Anonymous British Ballad, Sir Patrick Spence 600 Anonymous British Ballad, The Demon Lover 602 John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci 605 Siegfried Sassoon, The General 607 Countee Cullen, Incident 607 Edward Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory 608 Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
609 John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby 610 E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how
town 611
13 Lyric Poetry 613 Anonymous, Michael Row the Boat Ashore 613 Anonymous, Careless Love 613 Anonymous, The Colorado Trail 615 Anonymous, Western Wind 615 Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic 616 William Shakespeare, Spring 618 William Shakespeare, Winter 619 W. H. Auden, Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the
Telephone 620
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Emily Brontë, Spellbound 621 Spirituals, or Sorrow Songs 621 Anonymous African-American, Go Down, Moses 622 Anonymous African-American, Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot 625 Langston Hughes, Evenin’Air Blues 626 Li-Young Lee, I Ask My Mother to Sing 627 Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Spring and the Fall 627 Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth 628 Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider 629 Joseph Addison, Ode 630 John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn 631 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy 633 Jack Forbes, Something Nice 634 Linda Pastan, Jump Cabling 634 Billy Collins, The Names 635
14 The Speaking Tone of Voice 638 Emily Dickinson, I’m Nobody! Who are you? 639 Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool 641 Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother 641 Linda Pastan, Marks 642
The Reader as the Speaker 643 Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning 643 Wislawa Szymborska, The Terrorist, He Watches 644 John Updike, Icarus 645 Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas 647 Joseph Bruchac III, Ellis Island 648
The Dramatic Monologue 648 Robert Browning, My Last Duchess 649 Paula Gunn Allen, Pocahontas to Her English Husband,
John Rolfe 651 Diction and Tone 652
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 654
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter 655 Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est 656 Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed 657 Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid 658 Walter de la Mare, An Epitaph 659
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child 660
Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know 661 Lyn Lifshin, My Mother and the Bed 661
The Voice of the Satirist 662 E. E. Cummings, next to of course god america i 663 Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll 664 Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne 665 Alexander Pope, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
Which I gave to His Royal Highness 667
15 Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe 668 Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose 669 Sylvia Plath, Metaphors 671 Simile 671
Richard Wilbur, A Simile for Her Smile 672 Metaphor 672
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 673
Personification 674 Michael Drayton, Since There’s No Help 674
Apostrophe 675 Edmund Waller, Song 675 William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow 677 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle 677 Seamus Heaney, Digging 678 Dana Gioia, Money 679 Linda Pastan, Baseball 680 Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 681 William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 682
16 Imagery and Symbolism 683 William Blake, The Sick Rose 684 Walt Whitman, I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak
Growing 685 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan 687 Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus 690 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Kraken 691
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