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| Alternate Contents | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Parents and Children | |
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| The Myth of Demeter and Persephone (from the Homeric Hymns) | |
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| The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus | |
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| Luke 15:11-32 (King James Bible), The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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| Snow-White | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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| Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother | |
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| The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Childhood Among Ghosts (excerpt) | |
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| El Doctor | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| Through the Tunnel | |
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| Seventeen Syllables | |
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| Marriage Is a Private Affair | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing | |
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| Everyday Use: For Your Grandmama | |
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| Counterparts | |
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| The Moment Before the Gun Went Off | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Now That I Am Forever with Child | |
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| Mother to Son | |
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| Those Winter Sundays | |
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| Pomegranate | |
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| The Pomegranate | |
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| Daedalus | |
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| O Daedalus, Fly Away Home | |
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| The Prodigal | |
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| The Prodigal Son | |
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| My Papa's Waltz | |
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| Daddy | |
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| His Story | |
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| Ms. Lot | |
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| I Go Back to May 1937 | |
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| Portrait of My Father as a Young Man | |
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| Yesterday | |
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| The Portrait | |
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| The Envious Heart | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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| Myth | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| The Tempest | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 1: Parents and Children: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| Sisters and Brothers | |
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| Genesis 4:1-26 (King James Bible), The Story of Cain and Abel | |
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| Hansel and Gretel | |
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| Cinderella or, The Little Glass Slipper | |
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| Vasilisa the Beautiful | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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| Cinderella (excerpt from The Uses of Enchantment) | |
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| The Theme of the Three Caskets | |
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| Shakespeare's Sister (excerpt from A Room of One's Own) | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| Legend | |
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| In Memoriam, J.F.K. | |
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| The Rich Brother | |
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| The Brother | |
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| Boys and Girls | |
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| Soldier's Home | |
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| The Shawl | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| I Am Not. The Brother Did Something to Me | |
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| Abel | |
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| Two Sisters of Persephone | |
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| Hansel and Gretel | |
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| Gretel in Darkness | |
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| Cinderella | |
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| Mid-Term Break | |
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| Far Summers | |
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| Catullus, Poem 101 (Hail and Farewell) | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| The Glass Menagerie | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 2: Sisters and Brothers: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| People in Love | |
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| The Myth of Cupid and Psyche | |
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| The Myth of Pygmalion | |
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| Chinese Folktale, Faithful Even in Death | |
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| Beauty and the Beast | |
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| English Folktale, The Lady of Shalott | |
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| The lover and the letter, on complete absorption (A Sufi Parable) ) | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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| The Marriage of True Minds and Romantic Love After the Middle Ages (excerpts from The Book of Courtly Love: The Passionate Code of the Troubadours) | |
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| I Love You and Romantic Love (excerpts from About Love) | |
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| Love and Death (excerpt from Love and Will) | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| The Horse Dealer's Daughter | |
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| The Lady with the Dog | |
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| The Storm | |
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| In The Life | |
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| A Dill Pickle | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| Western Wind | |
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| Meeting at Night | |
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| Parting at Morning | |
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| Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways | |
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| The Good-Morrow | |
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| A Red, Red Rose | |
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| My Love Is Nothing Like the Moon | |
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| Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun | |
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| Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day | |
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| Song | |
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| Recuerdo | |
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| "Wild Nights--Wild Nights" (Poem 249) | |
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| Free Union | |
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| No Second Troy | |
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| When You Go Away | |
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| One Art | |
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| To His Coy Mistress | |
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| Waiting for Icarus | |
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| La Belle Dame sans Merci | |
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| The Lady of Shalott | |
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| Porphyria's Lover | |
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| Lovesong | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| A View from the Bridge | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 3: People in Love: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| Wives and Husbands | |
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| Genesis 18:16-33, 19:1-38 (Jerusalem Bible), The Story of Lot | |
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| The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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| Coyote and the Shadow People (a Nez Perce myth, told by Wayi'latpu to Archie Phinney) | |
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| The Story of Odysseus and Penelope (excerpt from The Odyssey) | |
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| The Blue Beard | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths and Folktales | |
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| Marrying Absurd | |
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| The Wedding (excerpt from Russian Journal) | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| The Gift of the Magi | |
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| Wife-Wooing | |
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| The Necklace | |
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| Semley's Necklace | |
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| Sweat | |
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| The Legacy | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| Proposal | |
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| Anniversary | |
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| The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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| Poem in Praise of My Husband | |
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| Eurydice | |
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| Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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| An Ancient Gesture | |
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| Penelope | |
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| Sea Grapes | |
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| Ulysses | |
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| Man and wife | |
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| Lot's Wife | |
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| Lot's Wife | |
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| My Last Duchess | |
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| My Last Duke | |
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| The Widow's Lament in Springtime | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| Trifles | |
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| A Doll's House | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 4: Wives and Husbands: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| Friends and Enemies | |
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| Bear Man Myth (from Myths of the Cherokee) | |
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| The Story of Quetzalcoatl (from Myths of the World) | |
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| The Fox and The Little Prince (excerpt from The Little Prince) | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths and Folktales | |
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| The Realization of the Shadow (from Man and His Symbols) | |
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| The Jealous Mistress (excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) | |
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| Friendship's Gift | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| William Wilson | |
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| The Secret Sharer | |
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| Roman Fever | |
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| The Wall | |
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| The Necessary Knocking on the Door | |
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| Recitatif | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| Friends | |
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| A Shady Friend--for Torrid Days--(Poem 278) | |
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| To an Athlete Dying Young | |
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| How It Is | |
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| Mending Wall | |
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| To Julia de Burgos | |
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| The Tunnel | |
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| Faces | |
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| A Poison Tree | |
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| The Man He Killed | |
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| Siren Song | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| Seeing a Friend Off | |
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| Farewell Once More, To My Friend Yen at Feng Chi Station | |
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| Auld Lang Syne | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| The Children's Hour | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 5: Friends and Enemies: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| Students and Teachers | |
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| The War Within and The Illumined Man (excerpts from The Bhagavad Gita) | |
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| Four Zen Parables (excerpt from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones) | |
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| The Parable of the Host and the Guests | |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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| The Story of My Life (excerpts) | |
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| Mrs. Bertha Flowers (excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) | |
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| Teacher Wei (excerpt from Iron and Silk) | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| The Lesson | |
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| As It Was in the Beginning | |
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| Soap and Water | |
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| Cathedral | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| Theme for English B | |
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| Ballad of Orange and Grape | |
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| The Soul, Like the Moon | |
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| Letter Written on a Paper Mountain | |
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| Tell all the Truth but tell it slant (Poem 1129) | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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| Snake | |
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| The Fish | |
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| A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| Pygmalion | |
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| The Lesson | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 6: Students and Teachers: Cross-Gener Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| People Alone | |
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| The Death of Adam | |
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| The Myth of Sisyphus (told by J.F. Bierlein) | |
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| Writing Topics for Myths, Parables, and Folktales | |
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| The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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| Solitude (excerpt from Walden) | |
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| Writing Topics for Essays | |
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| The Ring | |
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| The Yellow Wall-Paper | |
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| To Build a Fire | |
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| A Hunger Artist | |
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| The Death of Ivan Llych | |
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| Writing Topics for Short Stories | |
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| The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Poem 303) | |
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| Song of Myself | |
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| I wandered lonely as a cloud | |
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| Blackberry Eating | |
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| Pied Beauty | |
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| Drinking Alone by Moonlight | |
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| Madly Singing in the Mountains | |
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| Madrigal: Another Life | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| In Blackwater Woods | |
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| Mid-day | |
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| Domination of Black | |
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| My Sad Self | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota | |
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| In the end there is nobody | |
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| Fear of Death | |
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| Final Notations | |
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| The Snow Man | |
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| Acquainted With the Night | |
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| After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes | |
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| Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances | |
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| Writing Topics for Poems | |
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| Oedipus the King | |
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| Writing Topics for Drama | |
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| Part 7: People Alone: Cross-Genre Discussion and Writing Topics | |
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| Reading and Analyzing Fiction | |
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| Reading and Analyzing Poetry | |
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| Reading and Analyzing Drama | |
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| Reading, Analyzing, and Writing Essays | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Biographical Notes | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |