List of Literary Works

ENG125: Introduction to Literature

List of Literary Works

For your Literary Analysis, select at least two works from the list below that share the same type(s) of

conflict(s). Remember, one of them must be a short story. You can either compare two short stories, a

short story and a poem, or a short story and a play.

 Short Stories

o “Country Lovers” (Gordimer, 1975)

o “Hills Like White Elephants” ( Hemingway, 1927)

o “Good Country People” (O’Connor, 1953)

o “The Things They Carried” (O’Brien, 1990)

o “No Name Woman” (Kingston, 1975)

o “Sonny’s Blues” ( Baldwin, 1957)

o “Sweat” (Hurston, 1926)

o “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” (Oates, 1966)

o “A Rock Trying to Be a Stone” (Troncoso, 1997)

o “Greasy Lake” (Boyle, 1985)

o “What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” (Alexie, 2003)

 Poems

o “Let America Be America Again” (Hughes, 1935)

o “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl” (Smith, 1991)

o “Child of the Americas” (Morales, 1986)

o “To Live in the Borderlands” (Anzaldua, 1987)

o “A Point West of San Bernardino” (Delgado, 2013)

o “America” (Blanco, 1998)

o “Oranges” (Soto, 1995)

o “Poetry” (Neruda, 1982)

o “Burial” (Che, 2014)

o “Ways of Talking” (Jin, 1996)

o “Bright Copper Kettles” (Seshadri, 2010)

o “Blood” (Nye, 1986)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCpWdAG29ub0xMKHgRa3fYQuxpThVL9tG-u0Nl3Vp1A/edit?pli=1
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/seminar1fall2010hong/files/2010/08/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf

https://www.d.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/oates_going.pdf
http://sergiotroncoso.com/stories/rock/index.htm
http://teacherweb.com/WA/CloverParkHighSchool/MsSelby/Greasy-Lake.pdf
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/04/21/what-you-pawn-i-will-redeem?currentPage=all
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/247372
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/burial-1
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/28203
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/240830
ENG125: Introduction to Literature

o “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (Thomas, 1952)

o “My Last Duchess” (Browning, 1842)

o “The Boxer” (Simon, 1968)

o “Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World” (Alexie, 2009)

o “The Raven” (Poe, 1845)

 Drama

o Macbeth (Shakespeare, 1606)

o A Midsummer’s Night Dream, (Shakespeare, 1590)

o Mistaken Identity (Cooper, 2008)

o The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde, 1895)