The Pasture 833 Mending
20 Poets at Work 785 Walt Whitman, Enfans d’Adam, number 9 787 Cathy Song, Out of Our Hands 788 William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
(three versions) 789 William Butler Yeats, Annunciation 791 William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan (1924) 791 William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan (1933) 792
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21 Variations on Themes: Poems and Paintings 793 Writing about Poems and Paintings 793
Student Essay: Tina Washington, Two Ways of Looking at a Starry Night 794
Jane Flanders, Van Gogh’s Bed 796 Adrienne Rich, Mourning Picture 799 Cathy Song, Beauty and Sadness 801 Carl Phillips, Luncheon on the Grass 802 Anne Sexton, The Starry Night 805 W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts 807 X. J. Kennedy, Nude Descending a Staircase 809 Sherman Alexie, At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal
School 811 John Updike, Before the Mirror 813 Greg Pape, American Flamingo 815
22 Three Poets in Depth: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes 817 On Reading Authors Represented in Depth 817
Emily Dickinson 819 These are the days when Birds come back 819 Papa above! 820 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 820 There’s a certain Slant of light 821 I got so I could hear his name— 821 The Soul selects her own Society 822 This was a Poet—It is That 822 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 823 This World is not Conclusion 824 I like to see it lap the Miles 824 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 825 Further in Summer than the Birds 825 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 826 A Route of Evanescence 826 Those—dying, then 826 Apparently with no surprise 827 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 828 I felt a Cleaving in my Mind— 830 The Dust behind I strove to join 830
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Letters about Poetry 830 To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) 831 To T. W.Higginson 831 To T. W.Higginson 832
Robert Frost 833 The Pasture 833 Mending Wall 834 The Wood-Pile 835 The Road Not Taken 835 The Telephone 836 The Oven Bird 836 The Vanishing Red 837 The Aim Was Song 838 The Need of Being Versed in Country Things 838 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 839 Acquainted with the Night 840 Desert Places 840 Design 841 Come In 841 The Silken Tent 842 The Most of It 843
Robert Frost on Poetry 843 The Figure a Poem Makes 843 From “The Constant Symbol” 845
Langston Hughes 845 The Negro Speaks of Rivers 846 Mother to Son 846 The Weary Blues 847 The South 847 Ruby Brown 848 Poet to Patron 849 Ballad of the Landlord 849 Too Blue 850 Harlem [1] 850 Theme for English B 851 Poet to Bigot 852
Langston Hughes on Poetry 852 The Negro and the Racial Mountain 852 On the Cultural Achievements of African-Americans 856
23 Poetry and Translation 857 A Poem Translated from Spanish, in an Essay by a Student 857
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