Rich’s Poem 761 A Student’s Essay
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Dan Chiasson, The Elephant 692 Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York 693 Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck 694 Christina Rossetti, Uphill 696 Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream 697 Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen 698 Herman Melville, DuPont’s Round Fight 700 Naomi Shihab Nye, The Traveling Onion 700
A Note on Haiku 701 Moritake, Fallen petals rise 702 Sôkan, If only we could 702 Shiki, River in summer 702 Writing a Haiku 703 Taigi, Look, O look, there go 703 Cyber-Haiku 703
17 Irony 705 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias 707 Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress 707 John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV (“Batter my heart,
three-personed God”) 709 Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie 710 Martín Espada, Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn’t
Buy Anything 711 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat
nor Drink 713 Sherman Alexie, Evolution 714 Henry Reed, Naming of Parts 714 Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links 715
18 Rhythm and Versification 717 Ezra Pound, An Immorality 718 A. E. Housman, Eight O’Clock 720 William Carlos Williams, The Dance 721 Robert Francis, Pitcher 722
Versification: Glossary for Reference 723 Meter 723 Patterns of Sound 726 Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating 727
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William Carlos Williams, The Artist 728 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking
Absurdity 729 A Note about Poetic Forms 730
Stanzaic Patterns 732 Three Complex Forms: The Sonnet, the Villanelle, and the
Sestina 732 The Sonnet 732 Six Sonnets 733
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”) 733
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146 (“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth”) 734
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 736 John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece 737 X. J. Kennedy, Nothing in Heaven Functions as It
Ought 738 Billy Collins, Sonnet 739
The Villanelle 739 Edward Arlington Robinson, The House on the Hill 740 Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
741 Elizabeth Bishop, One Art 742
The Sestina 743 Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina 744
Shaped Poetry or Pattern Poetry 745 George Herbert, Easter-Wings 746 Lillian Morrison, The Sidewalk Racer 747
Blank Verse and Free Verse 748 Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
748 The Prose Poem 749
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel 749
19 Students Writing about Poems 751 First Response 751 Speaker and Tone 751 Audience 752 Structure and Form 752 Center of Interest and Theme 752
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Diction 752 Sound Effects 752 A Note on Explication 753 Seven Essays by Students 753
Louise Glück, Gretel in Darkness 754 A Student’s Annotations, Journal, and Final Draft 755 Student Essay: A Memory Poem: Louise Glück’s “Gretel in
Darkness” 757 Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 760 A Student’s Annotations and Essay 760 Student Essay: Aunt Jennifer’s Screen and Adrienne
Rich’s Poem 761 A Student’s Essay on a Theme in Several Poems by
One Poet 763 Student Essay: Religion and Religious Imagery in Emily
Dickinson 763 An Essay on the Structure of a Poem 767
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia’s Clothes 767 Annotations 768 Student Essay: Herrick’s Julia, Julia’s Herrick 769
An Essay on Metrics 771 Student Essay: Sound and Sense in A.E.Housman’s
“Eight O’Clock” 771 A Brief Overview of the Essay 775
Two Essays, for Evaluation, on Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” 776
Student Essay: Stopping by Woods—and Going On 777 A Student’s Journal Entry and Essay 780 Student Essay: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
as a Short Story 781
